Lynx

//lɪŋks// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A faint spring constellation of the northern sky. It lies north of the constellation Cancer.
Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several medium-sized wild cats of the genus Lynx.
  2. 2
    short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears; valued for their fur wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English lynx, linx, lenx, lynce, from Latin lynx, from Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx), from Proto-Hellenic *lúnks, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“white; light; bright”), because of the cat's glowing eyes and ability to see in the dark. Displaced English los; Middle English lusk (“lynx”), from Old English lox (“lynx”) as the animal died out in Britain during the Middle Ages.

Etymology 2

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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