Lynx

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Lynx lynx

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From Latin, from Ancient Greek λυγξ (lynx)

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Lynx

  1. (zoology) The taxonomic genus within the subfamily Felinae that comprises the lynxes.

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From Latin lynx (“lynx”). Named by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1687. The constellation is said to be so faint that one needs the eyes of a lynx to see it.

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Lynx

  1. (astronomy) A faint spring constellation of the northern sky. It lies north of the constellation Cancer.

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constellation

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