Barbary lion
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Noun
[edit]Barbary lion (plural Barbary lions)
- (zoology) Any of the North African population, now extinct in the wild, of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo.
- 2015, Bryn Ellis, Half Trace, page 290:
- Barbary lions had been believed extinct in the wild since the mid-twentieth century, survived only by a few odds and bods of DNA carried in captive individuals descended from Haile Selassie's private collection.
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[edit]Panthera leo leo
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