Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An Asiatic and Japanese animal of the family Canidæ, Nyctereutes procyonoides, a kind of dog having an aspect suggesting a racoon. See cut under
Nyctereutes .
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Examples
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All the animals that we shall have to deal with might and would be by some authors brought into this one genus, the only others recognised by them being the two African genera, _Megalotis_ and _Lycaon_, the long-eared fox and the hyaena-dog, and the _Nyctereutes_ or racoon-dog of Northern China and Amoorland.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Faces of all those involved in bizarre racoon-dog fighting ring
Blogtimore, Hon 2008
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