The wild lion is put in her care (8)
I believe the answer is:
caroline
'her care' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'the wild lion is put in' is the wordplay.
'the wild' is an anagram indicator.
'is put' becomes 'care' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'lion' with letters rearranged gives 'olin'.
'olin' inserted into 'care' is 'CAROLINE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for caroline that I've seen before include "Lady - Lamb, Lord Byron's lover" , "Girl's name - relating to Stuart king" , "No eclair for this girl" .)