jaglion

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Blend of jaguar +‎ lion.

Noun[edit]

jaglion (plural jaglions)

  1. An animal born to a female lion and a male jaguar.
    • 2022, Jeff Campbell, Glowing Bunnies!?, Lerner Publishing Group, →ISBN:
      For instance, the jaguar's optic nerve contains two lion genes, which means a fertile jaglion once existed in the wild.
    • 2021, Tezi Beach, Battle of the Cherubs, Christian Faith Publishing, Incorporated, →ISBN:
      Maybe he should leave her there until she could hold no and fall to the ground into the jaws of one humongous jaglion.
    • 2007, Matthew Limpede, Carve Magazine 2007 Anthology, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 73:
      Businesses he wants to invest in when Grandma Lorna dies and makes him rich: Jaglion hybrids, ostrich farming to produce eggs with low cholesterol, Nap World where business people can power nap, and rocketry to thrust garbage barges into outer space for quasars and solar flares to fry.