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bobcat
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A North American wild cat, ''Lynx rufus'', having tufted ears and a short tail Etymology 2 n. a multi-purpose construction vehicle that is a akin to a smaller version of a front-end loader or a backhoe (backhoe loader), with a one-man caged ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
bobcat \bob"cat\ (b[o^]b"k[a^]t`), n. 1. small lynx ( Lynx rufus ) of North America. Syn: bay lynx.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
North American lynx, 1873, in a Maine context; so called for its short tail; see bob (n.2) + cat (n.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. small lynx of North America [syn: bay lynx , Lynx rufus ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Behind the empty Ahwahnee Hotel, fresh bobcat tracks mark the morning snow. ▪ But the bobcat apparently was already headed back to Adams. ▪ Hammond responded to a call to remove a female bobcat from Tucson Raceway Park. ▪ Hammond ...
Usage examples of bobcat.
Other fauna boasted by the local biome included marsh rabbits, deer, river otters, a night bird called a clapper rail, and the rare bobcat.
They spoke reverently of forest food webs, of chickarees and insects and mule deer, of coyote and bobcat and pine marten and black bear, of ravens and kinglets and owls, of chickadees and sapsuckers and juncos and woodpeckers.
Virtually all wild and exotic cats, including ocelots, margay, serval, cougar, and bobcat, can turn vicious as they age.
Virtually all wild and exotic cats, including ocelot, margay, serval, cougar, and bobcat, can turn vicious as they age.
Lions, panthers, tigers, jaguars, pumas, smilodons with their sabre-teeth, and all the sorts of smaller felines as well, from bobcats to jaguarundi to domestic varieties.
The Packrats, whether it was the Bobcats, the Claws, or any of the other gangs, by contrast had reduced all life to the primitive level of kill-or-be-killed.
Coyotes watched them from the ridges, roadrunners darted across the road in front of them, and a bobcat was startled into immobility by the unfamiliar presence of the truck before it faded away into the brush.
Broward County saw an unusual sight: a wild bobcat walking dazed in broad daylight along the busy highway.
Rescuers had a sad mystery on their hands: an adult male bobcat about 2 years old, which should have been in its physical prime.
Libby, and Eddy were crawling down the hill, silently parting the brush in their path, stopping whenever a Bobcat idly gazed up the hill.
In addition to the Bobcat leader, a girl of 14 or 15 and a boy approximately the same age were the only Bobcats still alive.
The Bobcat girl was visible every now and then, whenever she popped her head up for a quick look-see.
Although Bertha knew where the Bobcat leader and the other boy were hiding, neither betrayed their position, neither appeared in her field of view.
Her eyes narrowed as she watched the Bobcat leader, waiting for the right moment.
She saw the Bobcat girl aim at Cole, and she automatically sighted her M-16 and fired off a half-dozen rounds.