Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

barbary lion

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.60 in modern English

Syllables: bar-bary lion
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the North African population, now extinct in the wild, of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo.

Example Sentences

"Barbary lions had been believed extinct in the wild since the mid-twentieth century, survived only by a few odds and bods of DNA carried in captive individuals descended from Haile Selassie's private collection."

Inflected Forms

Barbary lions (plural)

Synonyms

Atlas lion Nubian lion

Questions

What does barbary lion mean?: Any of the North African population, now extinct in the wild, of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo.

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