Cowardly Oz character

noun

1. A large heavily built social cat (Panthera leo) of open or rocky areas chiefly of sub-Saharan Africa though once widely distributed throughout Africa and southern Asia that has a tawny body with a tufted tail and a shaggy blackish or dark brown mane in the male
2. Any of several large wildcats
3. Leo
4. A person felt to resemble a lion (as in courage or ferocity)
5. A person of outstanding interest or importance

   "a literary lion"

6. A member of a major national and international service club

noun

1. A place or state of extreme disadvantage, antagonism, or hostility

   "a young reporter thrown into the lion's den"

noun

1. An edible mushroom (Hericium erinaceus) of North America and Eurasia that forms a large globular white or pale yellow fruiting body (as on the trunks of hardwood trees) covered in a mass of dangling spore-producing processes

   "Lion's manes are large mushrooms, considered gourmet ingredients with a texture and flavor often described as being similar to lobster or crab."

noun

1. The largest portion

   "received the lion's share of the research money"

geographical name

1. Arm of the Mediterranean Sea on the southern coast of France

noun

1. Any of various neuropterous insects (as of the genus Myrmeleon) having long-jawed larvae that feed on insects (such as ants) and including some that dig conical pits to capture prey

noun

1. Any of several insect larvae (such as a lacewing or ladybug larva) that feed on aphids

noun

1. A small brown sea lion (Zalophus californianus) that occurs especially along the Pacific coast of North America from Vancouver Island to Baja California and the Gulf of California and in the Galapagos Islands and that is the seal most often trained to perform in circuses

noun

1. A tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia) that has a reddish-gold coat and mane and occurs in remnants of tropical forest in southeastern Brazil

noun

1. Cougar