leonine
(adjective) of or characteristic of or resembling a lion
Source: WordNet® 3.1
leonine (comparative more leonine, superlative most leonine)
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion.
leonine (plural leonines)
(numismatics, historical) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and used in England as a debased form of the sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I.
leonine (plural leonines)
(poetry) A kind of Latin verse, generally alternate hexameter and pentameter, rhyming at the middle and end.
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Source: Wiktionary
Le"o*nine, a. Etym: [L. leoninus, fr. leo, leonis, lion: cf. F. léonin. See Lion.]
Definition: Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leonine look; leonine repacity.
– Le"o*nine*ly, adv. Leonine verse, a kind of verse, in which the end of the line rhymes with the middle; -- so named from Leo, or Leoninus, a Benedictine and canon of Paris in the twelfth century, who wrote largely in this measure, though he was not the inventor. The following line is an example: Gloria factorum temere conceditur horum.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
