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		Definition of bobcat in English: bobcatnoun ˈbɒbkatˈbɑbˌkæt A small North American lynx with a barred and spotted coat and a short tail. Felis rufus, family Felidae  Example sentencesExamples -  The Cascade range is full of bobcats and mountain lions and things.
 -  Trackers were brought in to hunt for the animal after several sets of tracks, far too large for native bobcats or mountain lions, were found on a ranch not far from the hilltop library.
 -  There's a wolf, a coyote, a bobcat and a puma sleeping right next to us - what are they doing sleeping together?
 -  Although rarely seen, mountain lions and bobcats periodically cross the canyon.
 -  Clearly, bobcats could survive hunting pressures better than margays and ocelots.
 -  And neither the feces of bobcats nor the urine of foxes, coyotes, and bobcats discouraged voles from attacking seedlings.
 -  He has seen golden eagles, bobcats and even mountain lion tracks on the course.
 -  As a cash crop, cattle encouraged ranchers to practise ruthless predator control, killing bears, bobcats and mountain lions.
 -  It's home to at least 300 vascular plants, 30 types of cacti and 249 vertebrate species, including mountain lions, bobcats and weasels.
 -  Jackrabbits may live to be six to eight years old; however, they are regularly hunted by large birds of prey such as eagles and hawks, foxes, bobcats, coyotes, badgers, weasels, and humans.
 -  Black bears, grizzly bears, mountain lions, bobcats, and wolves have been effectively removed from most U.S. farming areas, leaving coyotes as the top livestock predators.
 -  Coyotes, foxes, bears, mountain lions, and bobcats all prey on livestock.
 -  Visitors will especially enjoy Eagle Canyon, with its streams, mountain lions, bobcats, Mexican wolves, and golden eagles.
 -  A manitou could take the form of a bison, bear, wolf, mountain lion, bobcat, deer, bird, or some other animal.
 -  Since 1994 the zoo has been housing and sometimes breeding the American bobcat, a close relative of the lynx.
 -  This 137,400-acre expanse supports prairie dogs, coyotes, foxes, black bears, mountain lions, bobcats, elk, mule deer, and over 200 kinds of birds.
 -  A bobcat is another wild cat, about half the size of a cougar, with a stubby tail rather than a long one.
 -  To compound matters, expanding human populations have forced out - and hunted or trapped out - deer predators such as wolves, mountain lions, and bobcats.
 -  Large felines like the bobcat and lynx don't have this physical feature, but the cougar does.
 -  North American river otters are sometimes taken by bobcats, coyotes, birds of prey, alligators, and other large predators.
 
 
 Origin   Late 19th century: from bob2 (with reference to its short tail) + cat1.    Definition of bobcat in US English: bobcatnounˈbäbˌkatˈbɑbˌkæt A small North American cat species with a barred and spotted coat and a short tail. Lynx rufus, family Felidae. Compare with lynx  Example sentencesExamples -  A bobcat is another wild cat, about half the size of a cougar, with a stubby tail rather than a long one.
 -  Coyotes, foxes, bears, mountain lions, and bobcats all prey on livestock.
 -  To compound matters, expanding human populations have forced out - and hunted or trapped out - deer predators such as wolves, mountain lions, and bobcats.
 -  And neither the feces of bobcats nor the urine of foxes, coyotes, and bobcats discouraged voles from attacking seedlings.
 -  Jackrabbits may live to be six to eight years old; however, they are regularly hunted by large birds of prey such as eagles and hawks, foxes, bobcats, coyotes, badgers, weasels, and humans.
 -  Clearly, bobcats could survive hunting pressures better than margays and ocelots.
 -  This 137,400-acre expanse supports prairie dogs, coyotes, foxes, black bears, mountain lions, bobcats, elk, mule deer, and over 200 kinds of birds.
 -  Black bears, grizzly bears, mountain lions, bobcats, and wolves have been effectively removed from most U.S. farming areas, leaving coyotes as the top livestock predators.
 -  Although rarely seen, mountain lions and bobcats periodically cross the canyon.
 -  Large felines like the bobcat and lynx don't have this physical feature, but the cougar does.
 -  He has seen golden eagles, bobcats and even mountain lion tracks on the course.
 -  The Cascade range is full of bobcats and mountain lions and things.
 -  Visitors will especially enjoy Eagle Canyon, with its streams, mountain lions, bobcats, Mexican wolves, and golden eagles.
 -  There's a wolf, a coyote, a bobcat and a puma sleeping right next to us - what are they doing sleeping together?
 -  Trackers were brought in to hunt for the animal after several sets of tracks, far too large for native bobcats or mountain lions, were found on a ranch not far from the hilltop library.
 -  A manitou could take the form of a bison, bear, wolf, mountain lion, bobcat, deer, bird, or some other animal.
 -  It's home to at least 300 vascular plants, 30 types of cacti and 249 vertebrate species, including mountain lions, bobcats and weasels.
 -  As a cash crop, cattle encouraged ranchers to practise ruthless predator control, killing bears, bobcats and mountain lions.
 -  Since 1994 the zoo has been housing and sometimes breeding the American bobcat, a close relative of the lynx.
 -  North American river otters are sometimes taken by bobcats, coyotes, birds of prey, alligators, and other large predators.
 
 
 Origin   Late 19th century: from bob (with reference to its short tail) + cat.     |