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It’s specific to lions, just not exclusive to lions.
by code_duck 8y ago
It’s specific to lions, just not exclusive to lions.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoOoh, pedantry, my kind of thread: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/specific https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/specific I think it fails on most if not all definitions of specific. "Lion cub" is specific, lion and cub are both specifiers. But "cub" is specific to juveniles of a range of species; so I'd say "not specific to lions". Interesting then to think which species do have specific English single-word names for juveniles. Owlets, foals, and joeys spring to mind ... French has louveteau for a wolf cub, perhaps it has a specific lion cub word too? I'd imagine Kiswahili to have a specific word, perhaps?