raccoon
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
raccoon (plural raccoons)
- A nocturnal omnivore native to North America, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail; Procyon lotor.
- 1624, John SMith (explorer), Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 64:
- Before a fire upon a seat like a bedsted, he sat covered with a great robe, made of Rarowcun skinnes, and all the tayles hanging by.
- 1634, William Wood, New Englands Prospect:
- The Rackoone is a deepe furred beast, not much unlike a Badger, having a tayle like a Fox, as good meate as a Lambe; there is one of them in the Tower.
- 2010, Charlie Brooker, "Screen Burn", The Guardian, 3 Apr 2010:
- Thus we're presented with […] a man who has the head of his penis bitten off by a raccoon, then bleeds to death in a forest.
- 1624, John SMith (explorer), Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 64:
- Any mammal of the genus Procyon.
- Any mammal of the subfamily Procyoninae, a procyonine.
- Any mammal of the family Procyonidae, a procyonid.
- (Procyon lotor) coon (colloquial), common raccoon, North American raccoon, northern raccoon, trash panda
- French: (more exactly) raton laveur commun, (less exactly) raton laveur, chaoui, chat sauvage
- German: Waschbär, (obsolete) Schupp
- Italian: procione, orsetto lavatore
- Portuguese: guaxinim
- Russian: ено́т
- Spanish: mapache, oso lavador, zorra manglera, gato manglatero
- French: (member of subfamily) procyoniné
- French: (member of family) procyonidé
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