Procyon lotor : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Procyon lotor	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Procyon lotor
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Procyon lotor n North American raccoon [syn: common raccoon, {common racoon}, coon, ringtail, Procyon lotor]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Raccoon \Rac*coon"\, n. [F. raton, prop., a little rat, fr. rat rat, perhaps of German origin. See {Rat}.] (Zo[94]l.) 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}. {Raccoon dog} (Zo[94]l.), the tanate. {Raccoon fox} (Zo[94]l.), the cacomixle.