Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A carnivorous North American mammal (Procyon lotor) having grayish-brown fur, black masklike facial markings, and a black-ringed bushy tail.
- n. The fur of this mammal.
- n. Any of various similar or related animals.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See racoon.
Wiktionary
- n. A nocturnal omnivore originally living in 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.
- n. Any mammal of the genus Procyon.
- n. Any mammal of the subfamily Procyoninae, a procyonine.
- n. Any mammal of the family Procyonidae, a procyonid.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) 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 , andmapach .
WordNet 3.0
- n. an omnivorous nocturnal mammal native to North America and Central America
- n. the fur of the North American racoon
Etymologies
- From arocoun (1608), from Powhatan ärähkun, from ärähkuněm ‘he scratches with his hands’. (Wiktionary)
- Of Virginia Algonquian origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And if it has young back in there, a mother raccoon is going to just tear another hole into the structure to get back in.”
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“Something is trying to chew through the roof — probably a squirrel or raccoon from the sound of its feet.”
“Don't worry about the squirrel eatin ', raccoon hat wearin', horse marryin 'voters in WV and KY ..... there primary won't mean zilch this week.”
“Later, in a bit of synchronicity, my father told me on the phone about how friends of his had saved a baby raccoon from a tree that was being cut down.”
“DALLAS, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. retailer Neiman Marcus has agreed to pay a $25,000 fine for advertising "faux fur" on coats trimmed in Asian raccoon dog, authorities said.”
“On the farm we lived in previously, we had a compost bin we called the raccoon and skunk feeder.”
“You are basically building a door in someone's home where the raccoon might be able to get back out but not back in," Harrington said.”
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“Local News: "The hairless creature was identified as a raccoon with a congenital defect.”
“She doesn't think she has any options but one, so she has to be treated like a rabid raccoon, that is, cautiously and lethally.”
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“This video shows the terrible treatment involved in the skinning of dogs which I believe are called raccoon dogs.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘raccoon’.
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bilby 2 of the above 4 definitions specify omnivorous. Wordnik does not create the definitions, it aggregates them from online dictionaries and databases. Aug 27, 2012
suigeneris The definition of this word is inaccurate. Raccoons are omnivorous. Aug 27, 2012