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Perhaps I'm part of the last generation that knows about the Rupert the Bear stories/strips. If so, then there isn't a problem, apart from the obvious oddity of a large feline carnivore plus a fragrant, drooping flower. (And, yes, I am familiar with the flower named Tiger Lily and the reason for that name. Plenty of people aren't.) But, in the Rupert stories (he's a teddy bear) his friend Tigerlily is a Chinese human who turns up now and then and causes confusion.

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For my own part, Tiger seems silly and of all the flower names that I dislike, Lily is probably top of the list. So it's all kinds of Nay.