Cub?

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?

But I had never seen this before and it's fascinating! I don't mean to sound pedantic, I just think it's interesting how different languages have different sorts of technical oddities.

I've also noticed that readings seem to become more liberal in general. These days we tend to think of kanji having rigid associations to readings; however, you'll sometimes see some characters replacing semantically similar ones, despite the readings being different.

I also suspect this flexibility is how Japanese acquired such a complicated mapping between it's written and spoken forms.

Blah, blah blah. You get me on this subject and I can ramble endlessly. :)

but it can mean mother, horse, hemp, question... there is certainly a chinese version of this around the corner :)