LION CUB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lion cub mean? 

• LION CUB (noun)
  The noun LION CUB has 1 sense:

1. a young lion

  Familiarity information: LION CUB used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LION CUB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young lion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("lion cub" is a kind of...):

cub; young carnivore (the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion)

king of beasts; lion; Panthera leo (large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male)

 Context examples 

You are a young panther, a lion cub. Well, well, it is you who must pay for that strength.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)