MEANING
Resembling a lion in appearance, bearing, or character.
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- leonine head
- leonine mane
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His leonine head rose above the crowd.
A leonine mane framed the creature’s face.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more leonine; superlative most leonine where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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