(n.) Any one of several species of feline animals of the genus Felis, and subgenus Lynx. They have a short tail, and usually a pencil of hair on the tip of the ears.
(n.) One of the northern constellations.
Example Sentences:
(1) The complete primary structure of the major hemoglobin component from the adult European lynx (Lynx lynx) is presented.
(2) A total of €33m (£28.5m) – most of it provided by the regional government of Andalucía – has been spent so far on saving the lynx.
(3) Lynx on the loose after breaking out of Dartmoor zoo Read more Actually, Mee and his team know roughly where Flaviu is.
(4) The WWF has warned that the Iberian lynx, found only in Spain and Portugal, could become the first big cat to go extinct since the sabre-tooth tiger died out 10,000 years ago.
(5) The second phase of the programme involved trying to expand the narrow gene pool of the lynxes in the Doñana region.
(6) A further €50m has been committed for work to reintroduce the lynx to other areas of Spain and Portugal, with the bulk of this coming from the EU.
(7) The Iberian lynx is the only feline classified in the highest category of risk of extinction,” said Catherine Numa of the Spanish branch of the Geneva-based body.
(8) Spain's endangered Iberian lynx was brought back from brink of extinction thanks to an imaginative conservation programme that has brought hunters, farmers and the tourist industry under its wing.
(9) Visual evoked potentials were recorded from the occipital scalp of two anaesthetized Lynx (Lynx europea) in response to alternating gratings of various spatial frequencies and contrasts.
(10) Rabies virus was pantropic in naturally infected gray foxes and a bobcat (Lynx rufus).
(11) A Kuterevo bear takes a dip Bears aside– though bears alone are a pretty convincing reason to visit anywhere – the national park of the northern Velebit is home to over 2,700 plant species, as well as wolves, lynx, birds of prey and rarities such as the long-fingered bat and capercaillie .
(12) Read the second batch of Prince Charles's letters in full Read more Beef farming, dairy quotas, the power of supermarkets, Lynx helicopters, badger culling, listed buildings, summer schools, old-fashioned teaching methods and herbal medicines – Prince Charles filled ministers’ pigeon-holes with idiosyncratic lobbying letters covering an astonishing array of issues.
(13) Adult lynxes, which are about a metre long and weigh around 10kg – twice the size of a wildcat – have been reintroduced to the surrounding hills.
(14) Vegaolmosponce's idea was that you could mix two Lynx fragrances to get a third and that in turn would help men attract a gorgeous "mixable" woman.
(15) Rewilding plans by conservationists, similar to efforts to reintroduce wolves, lynx and other species to the UK , could also be harmed by the loss of wilderness, because the world risked losing a true picture of what certain ecosystems looked like.
(16) Slightly larger than a red fox and distinguished by its black ear tufts, the lynx has seen its population ravaged by farming, poaching and a decline in wild rabbits, its main prey, due to disease.
(17) The rise in lynx road deaths comes as efforts to boost lynx numbers through breeding programmes are starting to pay off.
(18) Of the 18 mammals surveyed, only the Iberian lynx ( Lynx pardinus ) is still declining, with a decrease of 84% since 1965 and only 279 individuals thought to remain in the wild.
(19) Finland approves wolf hunt in trial cull Read more Thanks to people finally shrugging off the fairytale baddies that teach us to fear this carnivore, and thanks to protection from an EU directive on habitats, wolf numbers – along with those of lynx and brown bears – have been slowly recovering in Europe .
(20) Having persuaded local hunters and landowners to stop shooting and laying down snares in lynx territory, conservationists have since been capturing animals and relocating young adult lynxes in protected territory.
Wolf
Definition:
(a.) Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.
(a.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.
(a.) Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
(a.) A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
(a.) An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.
(a.) The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.
(a.) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale.
(a.) A willying machine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
(2) A total of 38 patients underwent attempted percutaneous extraction of upper tract calculi with the Wolf nephroscope.
(3) I still can’t figure out who this is aimed at: I’m imagining characters who think they’re in Wolf of Wall Street, with such an inflated sense of entitlement that even al desko meals need to come with Michelin tags.
(4) Two second generation lithotripters suitable for treatments without invasive forms of the anesthesia, the modified Dornier HM 3- and the Wolf Piezolith 2,200 were compared in terms of efficacy for ureteric calculi.
(5) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(6) A young literature student accused him of manipulating the language, and then – at the end – another woman noted that he spoke very nicely before declaring him “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”.
(7) One female wolf had a single sinoatrial block within 1 min of receiving tolazoline HCl.
(8) McVeigh may have thought of himself as a lone wolf, but he was not one.
(9) A multicenter trial is presented involving the Siemens Lithostar, Dornier HM4, Wolf Piezolith 2300, Direx Tripter X-1 and Breakstone lithotriptor to compare the therapeutic efficacy of second generation machines.
(10) The 4(p14-pter) region was found to be the most likely crucial segment for the Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome.
(11) In resurfacing the nose the author has used Wolfe grafts when the cartilages are not involved or a tubed flap from the arm if this is not so.
(12) One wolf had been killed and another attacked by wolves.
(13) · Daniel Wolf directed Inside the Orange Revolution, to be shown on BBC4 on Sunday at 10pm.
(14) Important experimental considerations in setting up a spot photobleaching instrument are discussed in detail in Chapter 10 by Wolf (this volume) and elsewhere (Petersen et al., 1986a).
(15) T he image of the lone wolf who splits from the pack has been a staple of popular culture since the 19th century, cropping up in stories about empire and exploration from British India to the wild west.
(16) They paid a reward for killing a wolf worth a month’s salary.
(17) "They are essentially abandoning wolf recovery before the job is done," said Noah Greenwald, the endangered species director at the Centre for Biological Diversity.
(18) In 2013 , a 16-year-old boy was lounging outside his tent at a Minnesota campsite when a wolf clamped its jaws around his head.
(19) The sequence analysis indicates that bovine lung PGF synthase shows 62% identical plus conservative substitutions compared with human liver aldehyde reductase [Wermuth, B., Omar, A., Forster, A., Francesco, C., Wolf, M., Wartburg, J.P., Bullock, B.
(20) "There is a saying in our language that goes 'the wolf can change its fur but doesn't change its character' so that can apply to the newly elected president," Vukcevic said.