Definitions for Lynx

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Lynx lynx

Spelling: [lingks]

IPA: /lɪŋks/

Lynx is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in Lynx (lnxy).

Definitions for Lynx

noun

1. any of several wildcats of the genus Lynx (or Felis), having long limbs, a short tail, and usually tufted ears, especially L. lynx (Canada lynx) of Canada and the northern U.S., having grayish-brown fur marked with white.
2. genitive Lyncis [lin-sis] /ˈlɪn sɪs/ (Show IPA). (initial capital letter) Astronomy. a northern constellation between Ursa Major and Auriga.

Origin of Lynx

1300-50; Middle English Latin Greek lýnx

Examples for Lynx

First for the tail of my lynx, and then a bee-line for the camp.

The lynx can be refueled like a car and will be able to fly four times a day.

Some are also unhappy about the Italian sale of lynx armored personnel carriers to Russia.

I went to see the lynx being built at Mojave Air and Space Port, near Edwards Air Force Base in the California desert.

In a lynx, however, Harry could take part in reconnaissance missions and transport passengers.

With the disappearance of rabbits, the fox and lynx had also disappeared.

A Royal Navy Pilot sits inside a lynx helicopter at RAF Odiham air base today ahead of a rehearsal for a Diamond Jubilee flypast.

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

The lynx was uppermost, and she made a vicious snap at the boy's face.

Once, the cub sprang in and sank his teeth into the hind leg of the lynx.