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LYNX

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears; valued for their fur

Synonyms:

catamount; lynx

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("lynx" is a kind of...):

wildcat (any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lynx"):

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)

Holonyms ("lynx" is a member of...):

genus Lynx (lynxes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A text browser

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Instance hypernyms:

browser; web browser (a program used to view HTML documents)

Credits

 Context examples: 

He had eaten the lynx kitten.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Thus, he was strong from the two days' eating a lynx had afforded him when the hungry wolf- pack ran full tilt upon him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Once, a full-grown female lynx was secured, and this time White Fang fought for his life.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

At the end of that time the lynx was devoured, while the she-wolf's wounds had healed sufficiently to permit her to take the meat-trail again.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Not for nothing had he first seen the light of day in a lonely lair and fought his first fights with the ptarmigan, the weasel, and the lynx.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

At the forks he took the turning to the left, where he found the lair of the lynx with whom his mother and he had fought long before.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Because of the low-roofed entrance the lynx could not leap in, and when she made a crawling rush of it the she-wolf sprang upon her and pinned her down.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His mother had satisfied her hunger elsewhere; though he did not know that it was the rest of the lynx litter that had gone to satisfy her.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was a lynx kitten, partly grown, like the cub, but not so large.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Before she went away, the she-wolf had found this lair, but the signs told her that the lynx was inside, and she had not dared to venture in.

(White Fang, by Jack London)