LYNX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lynx mean? 

• LYNX (noun)
  The noun LYNX has 2 senses:

1. a text browser

2. short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears; valued for their fur

  Familiarity information: LYNX used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LYNX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A text browser

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Instance hypernyms:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

catamount; lynx

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)

 Context examples 

There were many signs of the battle that had been fought, and of the lynx's withdrawal to her lair after having won the victory.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

For snowshoe hares and 20 other species across the northern hemisphere, the white winter coats that once rendered them nearly invisible to predators now make them conspicuous to lynx, foxes, weasels and hawks.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

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.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He went about in it with greater confidence, with a feeling of prowess that had not been his in the days before the battle with the lynx.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But after the lynx, all fighting ceased for White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was the maker of the track, a large female lynx.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The two animals threshed about, the lynx ripping and tearing with her claws and using her teeth as well, while the she-wolf used her teeth alone.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The ball of quills might have been a stone for all it moved; the lynx might have been frozen to marble; and old One Eye might have been dead.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In that instant the lynx struck.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The snap had taken effect on the shoulder that had been hurt by the lynx and that was still sore deep down near the bone.

(White Fang, by Jack London)