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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings;
[syn: bassarisk, cacomistle, cacomixle, coon cat, raccoon fox, ringtail, ring-tailed cat, civet cat, miner's cat, Bassariscus astutus]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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 (r) 3.0 (2006):

raccoon fox n 1: raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings [syn: bassarisk, cacomistle, cacomixle, coon cat, raccoon fox, ringtail, ring- tailed cat, civet cat, miner's cat, Bassariscus astutus]