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Definition of lioness
: a female lion
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Recent Examples of lioness from the Web
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In keeping with the Zoo’s thank-you tradition, a lion and lioness are named Ernest and Evelyn, and the penguins in Africa Rocks bear names of McKinney family members.
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The lionesses, including Sarabi (Meghan Slate) and Nala (Allison Hall) wore long flowing tan tunics and leggings.
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A group of visiting Swedish hunters, on their way to Nebraska, were supposedly on the scene to kill a prowling lioness who had already taken 18 lives.
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These photographs from Nat Geo WILD display the range of a mother's love, from a baby barbary macaque snoozing on his mom's back to a lioness carrying her cub to safety.
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On my first early-morning game drive in Zimbabwe, my guide, Tengwe, a member of the local Tonga tribe, maneuvered us close to two lions and a lioness lounging under a tree.
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Female lionesses may mate 100 times a day with a string of different partners.
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The maned lionesses of Botswana may carry a genetic disposition toward the phenomenon, according to Luke Hunter, president of the big-cat conservation group Panthera.
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First Known Use of lioness
14th century
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