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?
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?