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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lynx/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lynx/#x1)
- A lynx has tufts on its ears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lynx/#x2)
- Its big paws work like snowshoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lynx/#x3)
- People want to bring lynx back to Scotland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lynx/#x4)
- The lynx pounced on a hare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lynx/#x5)
- We saw a lynx at the wildlife park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lynx/#x6)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lynx/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lynx» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lynx/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.