So a female lion is a lioness, right? But doesn’t “pack of lionesses” sound weird? Isn’t there another word for it? Jules prompted the discussion. I was sure there was a word but couldn’t think of it. I knew “lioness” was a word used, but “lionesses” not only didn’t sound right, I couldn’t think of ever hearing it used.
When one of us has trouble spelling a word, Jules and I often confer. This typically doesn’t get us very far. So, as we did for the “lioness” debate, we turn to the German. He’s proven quite knowledgeable but didn’t know the word for female lion. We decided to stick with “lioness.”
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It's "lioness" and "lionesses." A collective group of lions, however, is known as a "pride." If "lionesses" sounds silly, I suppose you could always go with "female lions."
It's Megan B, by the way.
I think lionesses is okay...because you would normally use a plural when talking about a group (e.g. 'a pack of wild dogs'). I have these problems all the time - I think it's side effect of limited exposure to other native English speakers :)
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