leonine

adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a lion.

[Middle English, from Old French leonin, from Latin leōnīnus, from leō, leōn-, lion. See lion.]

(lē'ə-nīn)
adj.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a lion.

A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce

adj.

Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox:

    The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades.
    Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores:  "O tempora! O mores!"

It should be explained that Mrs. Silcox does not undertake to teach pronunciation of the Greek and Latin tongues. Leonine verses are so called in honor of a poet named Leo, whom prosodists appear to find a pleasure in believing to have been the first to discover that a rhyming couplet could be run into a single line.

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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: of or characteristic of or resembling a lion
  Pertains to noun: lion (meaning #1)

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - løveagtig, løve-

adj. - leoninsk, løveagtig

Nederlands (Dutch)
leeuwachtig, betreffende leeuwen, betreffende paus Leo (Leonisch)

Français (French)
adj. - léonin

adj. - léonin

Deutsch (German)
adj. - löwenartig, leoninisch

adj. - aus der Zeit der Päpste Leo IV. oder Leo XIII.

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - λεόντειος, λιονταρίσιος

Italiano (Italian)
leonino

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - leonino

Русский (Russian)
львиный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - leonino

adj. - leonino

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - lejon-, lejonartad, lejonliknande, majestätisk

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
狮子的, 罗马教皇Leo的, 狮子般的, 狮子, 狮子般

狮子的, 狮子般的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 獅子的, 羅馬教皇Leo的, 獅子般的
n. pl. - 獅子, 獅子般

adj. - 獅子的, 獅子般的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 사자의, 사자 같은 , 용맹한

adj. - 사자자리
n. pl. - 사자자리 유성군

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - ライオンの, ライオンのような
n. - レオ詩体詩

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) أسدي, كالأسد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮של אריה, כמו אריה‬
adj. - ‮של האפיפיור או אפיפיור בשם לאו‬

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