Wiktionary
king of beasts
n. (context idiomatic English) The lion.
WordNet
king of beasts
n. large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male [syn: lion, Panthera leo]
Usage examples of "king of beasts".
All the other animals in the forest naturally expect me to be brave, for the Lion is everywhere thought to be the King of Beasts.
This question is not a very damaging objection because lions may have evolved from animals that were not the king of beasts.
What wonderful sort of creature was this that battled with Simba and held his own despite the mighty muscles of the king of beasts and slowly there dawned in those sunken eyes, gleaming so brightly from the scarred and wrinkled face, the light of a dawning recollection.