Meaning & use
lionet
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A young or small lion.
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The old fable describes a lionet learning to hunt under its mother's watch.
In heraldry, a lionet sometimes appears alongside its parent lion on a coat of arms.
A note on using this word
Lionet is a rare, largely archaic word now mostly encountered in older literature and heraldic descriptions.
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cub
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