Sphynx
See also: sphynx
English
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A Sphynx cat.
Alternative forms
- sphynx
Proper noun
Sphynx
- Archaic form of Sphinx (“Egyptian statue”).
- 1852, C. P. Cranch, The Palm Tree of Capri (in Dwight's Journal of Music, page 26)
- Where old Nile is everflowing, / And the Sphynx with heavy lids / Sits by ruins grim and sombre — / Onward to the Pyramids.
- 1852, C. P. Cranch, The Palm Tree of Capri (in Dwight's Journal of Music, page 26)
Noun
Sphynx (plural Sphynx or Sphynxes)
- A domestic cat of a breed with little or no hair, a narrow long head, and webbed feet.
- 2001, Joanne Mattern, The Sphynx Cat, Capstone, →ISBN, page 7:
- Sphynx cats are often called hairless cats. But Sphynx do have hair. Very short, fine hairs called down cover the Sphynx’s body.
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Translations
cat
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Further reading
Sphynx cat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Sphynx (cat) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons