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Bengal tiger
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What does Bengal tiger mean?
noun
- Any tiger of a specific, fragmented population of the subspecies Panthera tigris tigris in the Indian subcontinent.
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The royal Bengal tiger is in great force there, and is very bold and unconventional.
And the jaguar grew to a Bengal tiger.
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The members of a comfortable pic-nic party were cosily assembled in some part of India, when an unbidden and most unwelcome guest made his appearance, in the shape of a huge Bengal tiger.
Enormous bears came too, and hyaenas, and a tiger or lion (I cannot say which), as large as the largest Bengal tiger now to be seen in India.
Then endow this creature of your imagination with the agility and ferocity of a half-starved Bengal tiger and the strength of a span of bulls, and you will have some faint conception of Woola in action.