lynx1
noun lɪŋkslɪŋks
1A wild cat with yellowish-brown fur (sometimes spotted), a short tail, and tufted ears, found chiefly in the northern latitudes of North America and Eurasia.
Genus Felis, family Felidae: the Eurasian lynx (F. lynx) and the Canadian lynx (F. canadensis or F. lynx)
- This year we have scheduled a tiger, three lynxes, a cheetah, two pumas, a hippopotamus, and 500 rabid rats.
- Given the small size of the prey hunted by modern lynxes, it is not likely that this extinct species was a predator of large mammals.
- Other predators are red foxes, coyotes, wolves, bear, mountain lions, lynx, bobcats, eagles, and great horned owls.
- There are elves and centaurs and unicorns and mermaids and flying lynxes and all shapes of mythical things.
- Most of the zoo's remaining animals, including their lynxes, reptiles and baboons, are being moved to specialist facilities elsewhere.
- Jewell and Alibhai have begun using WildTrack to census tapirs in Argentina, Bengal tigers in India and Bangladesh, and Iberian lynxes in Spain and Portugal.
- We can also make an evolutionary prediction: I expect that lions, leopards, and lynxes will also have the same 247 base pair deletion, and a similar array of stop codons.
- The Canada lynx, the only lynx in North America, is a rare forest-dwelling cat of northern latitudes.
- The British Big Cats Society says its 15-month survey indicates there is little doubt that big cats such as leopards, lynxes and pumas are roaming Britain.
- A millionaire businessman has bought a 23,000-acre estate in the Highlands in a bid to reintroduce the wolf, the brown bear and the lynx to the wild.
- In the Adirondack mountains of New York, an attempt to reintroduce lynxes failed, with 18 of 37 mortalities attributed to road kills.
- There have been four recent reports of an animal - variously described as a lynx, puma or panther - in Dumfriesshire.
- His action exemplifies what the late Stephen Jay Gould, on his essay on the lynxes, aptly called ‘the authoritarian form of the empiricist myth’.
- They can be kittens one moment and pumas or lynxes the next.
- Other key threats to the lynx are changing habitat, unselective trapping methods (many lynxes are killed by snares), road accidents and hunting (including deliberate and accidental shooting).
- Hunting-tourism has become big business in Romania's Carpathian Mountains, the last place in Europe apart from Russia, where many large carnivores, bears, wolves and lynxes, can be found.
- Experts say there is ‘little doubt’ that big cats such as panthers, lynxes and pumas are indeed roaming the countryside, following a massive increase in sightings.
- The entire preserve sits inside the Kootenai National Forest and is populated by wildlife, including bears and trout as well as wolverines, lynxes, and mountain goats.
- This year leaflets about the habits of bears, wolves and lynxes were given to all the schools in mountain villages.
- We're cautious but hopeful that if we can get all the lynxes we need, we'll be able to add to the population in the wild.
- 1.1mass noun The fur of the lynx.
- It was at one time the main commercial port for lynx and sable furs, beeswax, timber, grain, hunting falcons, and walrus ivory.
- Fox, lynx, mink as well as shearing being dyed in strong colours dominate this season, whether it be trimmings on collar and cuffs or luxurious linings.
- The clothes were made of rayon polyester and trimmed with lynx fur.
- 1.2another term for caracal
- Caracals, also commonly called African lynx though not actually a lynx, weigh at adulthood from 25 to 45 pounds and are native to the grasslands of Africa and parts of Asia.
- The coolest part of that experience was getting to hold a nine-week old Desert African Lynx named Kenya.
- Six years ago they paid $1700 for a blind African lynx at an auction because another bidder was going to put the animal down and mount it.
Origin
Middle English: via Latin from Greek lunx.
ounce from Middle English:
The unit of weight goes back to Latin uncia, where it meant ‘twelfth part’. In imperial measurement this would have been the twelfth part of a pound, but it is also the basis of inch as the twelfth part of a foot. Ounce is also another name for the snow leopard. This is a quite different word, which originally had an extra letter. In medieval French it was lonce, but the ‘l’ was misunderstood as representing le, the French for ‘the’. The word actually goes back to Latin lynx, the root of lynx (Middle English).
Rhymes
jinks, jinx, methinks, minx, sphinx
Lynx2
proper nounlɪŋkslɪŋks
Astronomy 1An inconspicuous northern constellation (the Lynx), between Ursa Major and Gemini.
- 1.1as genitive Lyncis /ˈlɪnsɪs/ Used with preceding letter or numeral to designate a star in the Lynx constellation.the star Alpha Lyncis
- 1.1as genitive Lyncis /ˈlɪnsɪs/ Used with preceding letter or numeral to designate a star in the Lynx constellation.
Origin
Via Latin from Greek lunx.
lynx1
nounlɪŋksliNGks
1A wild cat with yellowish-brown fur (sometimes spotted), a short tail, and tufted ears, found chiefly in the northern latitudes of North America and Eurasia.
Genus Felis, family Felidae: the Eurasian lynx (L. lynx) and the Canadian lynx (L. canadensis or L. lynx)
- The entire preserve sits inside the Kootenai National Forest and is populated by wildlife, including bears and trout as well as wolverines, lynxes, and mountain goats.
- There have been four recent reports of an animal - variously described as a lynx, puma or panther - in Dumfriesshire.
- This year we have scheduled a tiger, three lynxes, a cheetah, two pumas, a hippopotamus, and 500 rabid rats.
- Given the small size of the prey hunted by modern lynxes, it is not likely that this extinct species was a predator of large mammals.
- Other predators are red foxes, coyotes, wolves, bear, mountain lions, lynx, bobcats, eagles, and great horned owls.
- They can be kittens one moment and pumas or lynxes the next.
- We're cautious but hopeful that if we can get all the lynxes we need, we'll be able to add to the population in the wild.
- Jewell and Alibhai have begun using WildTrack to census tapirs in Argentina, Bengal tigers in India and Bangladesh, and Iberian lynxes in Spain and Portugal.
- This year leaflets about the habits of bears, wolves and lynxes were given to all the schools in mountain villages.
- Other key threats to the lynx are changing habitat, unselective trapping methods (many lynxes are killed by snares), road accidents and hunting (including deliberate and accidental shooting).
- In the Adirondack mountains of New York, an attempt to reintroduce lynxes failed, with 18 of 37 mortalities attributed to road kills.
- Most of the zoo's remaining animals, including their lynxes, reptiles and baboons, are being moved to specialist facilities elsewhere.
- We can also make an evolutionary prediction: I expect that lions, leopards, and lynxes will also have the same 247 base pair deletion, and a similar array of stop codons.
- Hunting-tourism has become big business in Romania's Carpathian Mountains, the last place in Europe apart from Russia, where many large carnivores, bears, wolves and lynxes, can be found.
- The Canada lynx, the only lynx in North America, is a rare forest-dwelling cat of northern latitudes.
- A millionaire businessman has bought a 23,000-acre estate in the Highlands in a bid to reintroduce the wolf, the brown bear and the lynx to the wild.
- His action exemplifies what the late Stephen Jay Gould, on his essay on the lynxes, aptly called ‘the authoritarian form of the empiricist myth’.
- Experts say there is ‘little doubt’ that big cats such as panthers, lynxes and pumas are indeed roaming the countryside, following a massive increase in sightings.
- The British Big Cats Society says its 15-month survey indicates there is little doubt that big cats such as leopards, lynxes and pumas are roaming Britain.
- There are elves and centaurs and unicorns and mermaids and flying lynxes and all shapes of mythical things.
- 1.1 The fur of the lynx.
- Fox, lynx, mink as well as shearing being dyed in strong colours dominate this season, whether it be trimmings on collar and cuffs or luxurious linings.
- It was at one time the main commercial port for lynx and sable furs, beeswax, timber, grain, hunting falcons, and walrus ivory.
- The clothes were made of rayon polyester and trimmed with lynx fur.
- 1.2see caracal
- Six years ago they paid $1700 for a blind African lynx at an auction because another bidder was going to put the animal down and mount it.
- The coolest part of that experience was getting to hold a nine-week old Desert African Lynx named Kenya.
- Caracals, also commonly called African lynx though not actually a lynx, weigh at adulthood from 25 to 45 pounds and are native to the grasslands of Africa and parts of Asia.
Origin
Middle English: via Latin from Greek lunx.
Lynx2
proper nounlɪŋksliNGks
Astronomy 1An inconspicuous northern constellation (the Lynx), between Ursa Major and Gemini.
- 1.1as genitive Lyncis /ˈlinsis/ Used with preceding letter or numeral to designate a star in the Lynx constellation.the star Alpha Lyncis
- 1.1as genitive Lyncis /ˈlinsis/ Used with preceding letter or numeral to designate a star in the Lynx constellation.
Origin
Via Latin from Greek lunx.