lynx

«lynx» in Mova's school dictionary: a wild cat of medium size with tufts of black fur on the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a lynx, lynxes or lynx)

meaning for a pupil

A lynx is a wild cat of medium size with tufts of black fur on the tips of its ears, a short tail and big furry paws. It lives in forests of North America, Europe and Asia. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, the Canada lynx mainly eats snowshoe hares; when hares go down, lynx go down too (predator-prey cycles). There are plans to bring the lynx back to parts of the UK. Lynx is also a brand of deodorant.

examples

• The lynx crept silently through the snow. tree →
• A lynx has tufts on its ears. tree →
• Its big paws work like snowshoes. tree →
• People want to bring lynx back to Scotland. tree →
• The lynx pounced on a hare. tree →
• We saw a lynx at the wildlife park. tree →
• 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. tree →

note

Pronounced «links» (sounds like «links»). Plural lynxes or lynx.

In the corpora

• With no hunting, farming or traffic, wolves, elk, boar, lynx and even brown bears came back.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «lynx» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.