Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several wildcats of the genus Lynx, especially L. canadensis of northern North America or L. lynx of Eurasia, having soft thick fur, a black-tipped short tail, and tufted ears.
- noun A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere, near Auriga and Gemini.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wild cat with a short tail, penciled ears, and 28 teeth, belonging to the family Felidæ and genus Lynx, such as the caracal, the loup-cervier, and others.
- noun [capitalized] A genus of Felidæ lacking the front upper premolar of the true cats; the lynxes.
- noun [capitalized] A small northern constellation introduced by Hevelius in 1690, the name being chosen because the sharp-sightedness of a lynx is required to distinguish any of its stars.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of feline animals of the genus Felis, and subgenus Lynx. They have a short tail, and usually a pencil of hair on the tip of the ears.
- noun (Astron.) One of the northern constellations.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
medium-sized wild cats , mostly of the genusLynx .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a text browser
- noun short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears; valued for their fur
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The bay lynx also -- or wild cat, as it is called (_lynx rufus_) -- and now and then, but more rarely, the cougar (_felis concolor_), give the hounds a run before taking to the tree.
Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850
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It was that species known as the "bay lynx" (_lynx rufus_), commonly called in America the "wild cat," and sometimes the
The Boy Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
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The European lynx (_felis lynx_), and the wild cat, both skulk through the Pyrenean forests; the former now only rarely seen.
Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850
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It has higher than 355 fps and a nice let off rate i think it lets off to about 80 percent where as my martin lynx (20 year old bow, but still a nice bow) lets off about 50 percent but if I were you ide take the lights out
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It has higher than 355 fps and a nice let off rate i think it lets off to about 80 percent where as my martin lynx (20 year old bow, but still a nice bow) lets off about 50 percent but if I were you ide take the lights out
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The lynx is particularly interesting as the case was pretty much kept quiet until 2001.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Those blessed battlements (which had been of so much help to him ever since he had dashed from the wall across the grounds) were, now that he came to think of it, one of the recognized symbols in art of Sphigx, the lion-goddess of war; and Lion had been the name of Mucor's horned cat-of the animal she called her lynx, which had not harmed him.
Nightside The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1993
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Even in the wild state the lynx is short-lived, and is said rarely to reach the age of fifteen years.
Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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I think that most of us would rather be called lynx-eyed than gluttonous, and certainly a lynx is a much handsomer beast than a glutton.
Peeps at Many Lands: Norway Nico [Illustrator] Jungman 1893
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The Mediterranean monk-seal, the Barbary macaque and the Iberian lynx, which is Critically Endangered, are among the region's imperiled species.
Allen Hershkowitz: Cork: A Model of Sustainable Business Allen Hershkowitz 2011
seanahan commented on the word lynx
Also a terminal web browser.
October 24, 2007
vanishedone commented on the word lynx
I suppose it's understandable that WeirdNet's priorities lie with software.
September 8, 2009
asativum commented on the word lynx
Does that make me a lynx? I browse text.
September 8, 2009
bilby commented on the word lynx
These things always go missing. What to do?
November 3, 2009
reesetee commented on the word lynx
Put them in a chain lynx to keep them together.
November 3, 2009
bilby commented on the word lynx
:-) Betcha they sneak out to play golf anyway.
November 4, 2009
reesetee commented on the word lynx
Right. On the lynx.
November 4, 2009
marky commented on the word lynx
Cool word, cool spelling. Thx mollusque!
December 6, 2009