panthera leo

Questions about panthera leo

What does panthera leo mean?

panthera leo means "large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male".

What is another word for panthera leo?

Close synonyms include lion, king of beasts. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is panthera leo a common word?

panthera leo 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.