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lynx

lynx

noun LINX Rare
Animals & Nature Mammals

Origin: Latin lynx, from Greek lunx

Usage Note

Lynx is invariable in the plural — des lynx — because it already ends in x. The expression avoir des yeux de lynx (to have eyes like a lynx) means to have very sharp eyesight. The Eurasian lynx (lynx boréal) was reintroduced in parts of France from the 1970s onward.

Examples

"Le lynx est un animal solitaire."

Natural Translation

The lynx is a solitary animal.

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