"American lion" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: American lions [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} American lion (plural American lions)
  1. (dated) A puma or cougar. Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-American_lion-en-noun-CQwTRBjy
  2. An extinct lion of subspecies †Panthera leo atrox or species †Panthera atrox, endemic to North America and northwestern South America during the Pleistocene epoch. Categories (lifeform): Felids, Panthers Translations (extinct lion endemic to the Americas): leon Meiriceánach [masculine] (Irish), leão americano [masculine] (Portuguese), león americano [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-American_lion-en-noun-dHpqTspe Disambiguation of Felids: 17 83 Disambiguation of Panthers: 22 78 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 98 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 2 98 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 2 98 Disambiguation of 'extinct lion endemic to the Americas': 3 97

Inflected forms

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