Noun: tige
Sample Sentences
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The tige is either simple, as in the White Lily, or branching, as in the Geranium; the branching is the most common form; […] [1829, Mrs. Lincoln Phelps, Familiar Lectures on Botany, page 50:]
Nouns inflected like tige
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French tige (“stem”), from Latin tibia (“shin bone, leg”). Doublet of tibia. See: French Nouns '
tige', Latin Nouns '
tibia'.