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< Leonidas I

leonine rhyme >

le·o·nine

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) KEY

ADJECTIVE:

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a lion.

ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old French leonin, from Latin lennus, from le , len-, lion ; see lion

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