loup-cervier
English
Etymology
From French loup-cervier (“lynx”). Compare lusern.
Noun
loup-cervier (plural loup-cerviers or loups-cerviers)
- The Canada lynx.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for loup-cervier in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lu.sɛʁ.vje/
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Noun
loup-cervier m (plural loups-cerviers, feminine loup-cerve)
- lynx
- the Eurasian lynx
- the Canada lynx
Synonyms
- lynx
Further reading
- “loup-cervier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.