The specific epithet, tigris, as well as the common name, tiger, come from the Middle English tigre and the Old English tigras (a plural word), both used for the animal. These derive from the Old French tigre, itself a derivative of the Latin word tigris and the Greek word tigris.
â¢ DELMONICO STEAK (noun). The noun DELMONICO STEAK has 1 sense: 1. small steak from the front of the short loin of beef. Familiarity information: DELMONICO STEAK used as a noun is very rare.
A Delmonico roast is a rib-eye roast (and a Delmonico steak is a rib steak). This recipe, from the picture and description definitely wasn't for a rib roast. The BY cookbook lists brick roast in it's meat chart and says it is a french roast or a square roast (here the butchers call it a square cut chuck roast).