Barbary lion en · NOUN
Meanings
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Any of the North African population, now extinct in the wild, of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo.
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.
2015, Bryn Ellis, Half Trace, page 290:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| Barbary lions | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (23)
nb berberløve (Panthera leo leo) · ca lleó de l'Atles (Panthera leo leo) · ko 바버리사자 (Panthera leo leo) · de Berberlöwe (Panthera leo leo) · nl Berberleeuw (Panthera leo leo) · es león de Berbería (Panthera leo leo) · nl Atlasleeuw (Panthera leo leo) · ru барбари́йский лев (Panthera leo leo) · de Atlaslöwe (Panthera leo leo) · de Nubischer Löwe (Panthera leo leo) · ru бербери́йский лев (Panthera leo leo) · nl Barabijse leeuw (Panthera leo leo) · ro leu berber (Panthera leo leo) · fr lion de barbarie (Panthera leo leo) · cmn 巴巴裡獅 /巴巴里狮 (Panthera leo leo) · es león bárbaro (Panthera leo leo) · it leone dell'Atlante (Panthera leo leo) · da Atlasløve (Panthera leo leo) · fr lion de l'Atlas (Panthera leo leo) · it leone berbero (Panthera leo leo) · fi atlasleijona (Panthera leo leo) · pt leão-do-atlas (Panthera leo leo) · es león del Atlas (Panthera leo leo)