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English

Alternative spellings

racoon

Pronunciation

IPA: ɹæˈkuwn

Image:Procyon lotor (Common raccoon).jpg|right|thumb|A common raccoon (Procyon lotor)

Noun

Any member of the genus Procyon.
A nocturnal omnivore originally living in Northern America, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail, Procyon lotor.

Translations

Basque: mapatxe
Cherokee: ᎥᏟ (vtli)
Chinese: 浣熊
Czech: {{t-|cs|mýval|m}}
Danish: vaskebjørn
Dutch: {{t+|nl|wasbeer|m}}
Estonian: pesukaru
Finnish:
French: {{t+|fr|raton laveur|m}}
German: {{t+|de|Waschbär|m}}
Indonesian: rakun
Italian: {{t+|it|procione|m}}

Japanese: アライグマ (araiguma)
Lakota: wica
Latvian: jenots
Norwegian: vaskebjørn
Ojibwe: ᐁᐦᓯᐸᓐ (esiban) na
Portuguese: guaxinim
Russian: {{t+|ru|енот|m|tr=jenót|sc=Cyrl}}
Slovene: {{t+|sl|rakun|m}}
Spanish: {{t+|es|mapache|m}}
Swedish: {{t-|sv|tvättbjörn|c}}
Turkish: rakun

Category:Algonquian derivations Category:Mammals

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Raccoon \Rac*coon"\ (r[a^]k*k[=oo]n"), n. [F. raton, prop., a
little rat, fr. rat rat, perhaps of German origin. See
Rat.] (Zool.)
A North American nocturnal carnivore (Procyon lotor) allied
to the bears, but much smaller, and having a long, full tail,
banded with black and gray. Its body is gray, varied with
black and white. Called also coon, and mapach.
[1913 Webster]

Raccoon dog (Zool.), the tanate.

Raccoon fox (Zool.), the cacomixle.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet raccoon
n 1: the fur of the North American racoon
2: an omnivorous nocturnal mammal native to North America and
Central America [syn: racoon]

Moby Dictionary
Cape polecat , ape , bar , bear , cavy , chimp , chimpanzee , coon ,
ferret , foumart , glutton , groundhog , guinea pig , hedgehog , monk ,
monkey , mousehound , opossum , polecat , porcupine , possum ,
prairie dog , quill pig , skunk , weasel , whistle-pig , wolverine ,
woodchuck , zoril