a name given by the Roman authors to a fierce and terrible creature, which they describe from the Greeks, who call it sometimes also mantichora, martichora, and martiora. We have formed the name man-tiger on the sound of the Roman Mantichora name, though expressing a very different sense; and our authors of the histories of animals, figure to us under this name a terrible creature, partly from the accounts of Pliny exaggerated, and partly from their own imagination, with three rows of teeth, and with such a shape as no animal ever possessed. See MANTEGAR.