Usually means: Hairless cat breed, distinctive appearance.
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  1. sphynx: Merriam-Webster
  2. Sphynx: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Sphynx: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Sphynx, sphynx: Wordnik
  5. Sphynx, sphynx: Wiktionary
  6. Sphynx (album), Sphynx (band), Sphynx (cat), Sphynx (disambiguation), Sphynx: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Sphynx: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Sphynx (cat): Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sphynx (cat): Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sphynx, the sphynx: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Sphynx)

noun:  A domestic cat of a breed with little or no hair, a narrow long head, and webbed feet.
noun:  Dated form of Sphinx (“Egyptian statue”). [(usually with "the") An ancient, large statue in Egypt, with the face of a man and the body of a lion, lying near the Great Pyramids.]
noun:  Dated form of sphinx (“mythological creature”). [(mythology) A creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal, commonly a lion.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Sphynx (“breed of cat”). [A domestic cat of a breed with little or no hair, a narrow long head, and webbed feet.]

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