leonine

1. 1.

   of or characteristic of or resembling a lion

Questions about leonine

What does leonine mean?

leonine means "of or characteristic of or resembling a lion".

How many syllables are in leonine?

leonine has 3 syllables and divides as le-o-nine under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is leonine a common word?

leonine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.