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Sphynx

/ sfɪŋks /

noun

  1. a breed of medium-sized hairless cat with large ears and a long whiplike tail
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The Sphynx cat breed is known for its lack of which feature?

From Slate

Stepan, who works in IT after his tennis career was ended by injury aged 18, was at home in Prague for most of the fortnight - because he had to look after their sphynx cat Frankie.

From BBC

BBC Sport's Liam Loftus talks to Marketa Vondrousova at Wimbledon 2023 about her love for body art and her two pets, Brownie the pug and Frankie the sphynx cat.

From BBC

The Sphynx cat, which doesn't yet have a name, is about 1 year old and has spent weeks in the Mexican city of Juarez under the care of animal rescue workers after police found him in a prison, where it suffered mistreatment at the hands of a criminal gang.

From Reuters

But as cats moved around the globe, it created pockets for genetic diversity to spread out, which is a prevailing theory for why there are so many different cat breeds, from Sphynx to Persian and everything in between.

From Salon

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