leoponn.
/ˈlɛpən/ Zoology.
An animal born of a mating between a leopard and a lion. Cf. liger n., tigon n.
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leopon1960
1960 Internat. Zoo Yearbk. I. 44 (heading) Leopons born at Koshien Zoo-Botanical Gardens.
1976 Observer 5 Sept. (Colour Suppl.) 42/2 Two leopons were born at a zoo in Japan in 1959.
1985 Sunday Tel. 21 July 2/4 The last of the ‘Leopons’, a cross between a leopard and a lion, has died at a zoo in western Japan.
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