lynx

a wildcat having long limbs, a short tail, and tufted ears

Not to be confused with:

links – the rings of which a chair is composed; bonds or ties; connections

lynx

(lĭngks)

n. pl. lynx or lynx·es

1. 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.

2. Lynx A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere, near Auriga and Gemini.

[Middle English, from Latin, from Greek lunx; see leuk- in Indo-European roots.]

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lynx

(lɪŋks)

n, pl lynxes or lynx

1. (Animals) a feline mammal, Felis lynx (or canadensis), of Europe and North America, with grey-brown mottled fur, tufted ears, and a short tail.

2. (Textiles) the fur of this animal

3. (Animals) bay lynx another name for bobcat

4. (Animals) desert lynx another name for caracal

5. (Breeds) Also called: Polish lynx a large fancy pigeon from Poland, with spangled or laced markings

[C14: via Latin from Greek lunx; related to Old English lox, German Luchs]

ˈlynxˌlike adj

Lynx

(lɪŋks)

n, Latin genitive Lyncis (ˈlɪnsɪs)

(Astronomy) a faint constellation in the N hemisphere lying between Ursa Major and Cancer

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lynx

(lɪŋks)

n., pl. lynx•es, (esp. collectively) lynx.

any of several wildcats of the genus Lynx, having long limbs, a short tail, and usu. tufted ears.

[1300–50; Middle English < Latin < Greek lýnx]

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Noun	1.	lynx - a text browser
	2.	lynx - short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears; valued for their fur catamount wildcat - any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild genus Lynx - lynxes common lynx, Lynx lynx - of northern Eurasia Canada lynx, Lynx canadensis - of northern North America bay lynx, bobcat, Lynx rufus - small lynx of North America Lynx pardina, spotted lynx - of southern Europe caracal, desert lynx, Lynx caracal - of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia

lynx

noun

Related words
adjective lyncean

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Translations

rys

los

linko

ilves

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hiúz

lince

lynx

lūšis

lynx

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lince

linx

рысь

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lolodjur

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lynx

[lɪŋks] N (lynxes or lynx (pl)) → lince m

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lynx

[ˈlɪŋks] n → lynx m inv

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

lynx

n → Luchs m

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lynx

[lɪŋks] n → lince f

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It was the maker of the track, a large female lynx. She was crouching as he had crouched once that day, in front of her the tight-rolled ball of quills.

He lay down in the snow, depositing the ptarmigan beside him, and with eyes peering through the needles of a low-growing spruce he watched the play of life before him--the waiting lynx and the waiting porcupine, each intent on life; and, such was the curiousness of the game, the way of life for one lay in the eating of the other, and the way of life for the other lay in being not eaten.

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In all this there was a hint of night--the lynx, the man with the torch, the owl.

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The poor, senseless young man was not aware of the incoherence of his words, while Milady was reading with her lynx's eyes the very depths of his heart.

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But first he went to the forest and caught a lynx, and cutting off the creature's sharp claws, he fastened them on to his own hands and feet.

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Once, during the day, a lynx leaped lightly across the trail, under the very nose of the lead-dog, and vanished in the white woods.

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The utmost skill and caution are required to render these places of concealment invisible to the lynx eye of an Indian.

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The truth is, that while I was leading this busy life, in a retirement that might compare with that of a monastery, and unseen as I thought by any except the servants of the house (for when I went to Mass it was so early in the morning, and I was so closely attended by my mother and the women of the household, and so thickly veiled and so shy, that my eyes scarcely saw more ground than I trod on), in spite of all this, the eyes of love, or idleness, more properly speaking, that the lynx's cannot rival, discovered me, with the help of the assiduity of Don Fernando; for that is the name of the younger son of the duke I told of."

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Negore watched the supple body, bending at the hips as a lynx's body might bend, pliant as a young willow stalk, and, withal, strong as only youth is strong.

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Aramis, in fact, so vigilant, so active - Aramis, whose eye, like that of the lynx, watched without ceasing, and saw better by night than by day - Aramis seemed to sleep in this despair of soul.

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For the present, he is paying attention to Madame Mathieu, whose husband is keeping a lynx eye upon her in consequence."

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These people also were cave-dwellers, but their caves showed the result of a higher intelligence that brought them a step nearer to civilized man than the tribe next "toward the beginning." The interiors of their caverns were cleared of rubbish, though still far from clean, and they had pallets of dried grasses covered with the skins of leopard, lynx, and bear, while before the entrances were barriers of stone and small, rudely circular stone ovens.

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