raccoon
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- Scrabble points
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- Words With Friends
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- 7
/ɹəˈkuːn/
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/ɹəˈkuːn/ · /ɹæˈkun/ · /ɹəˈkun/
Definition of raccoon
9 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- An omnivorous, nocturnal mammal native to the Americas, of the genus Procyon, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail.
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noun
- An omnivorous, nocturnal mammal native to the Americas, of the genus Procyon, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail.
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The common raccoon (Procyon lotor).
“Before a fire upon a seat like a bedsted, he sat covered with a great robe, made of Rarowcun skinnes, and all the tayles hanging by.”
“The Rackoone is a deepe furred beaſt, not much unlike a Badger, having a tayle like a Fox, as good meate as a Lambe; there is one of them in the Tovver.”
“Thus we're presented with[…]a man who has the head of his penis bitten off by a raccoon, then bleeds to death in a forest.”
- Any mammal of the subfamily Procyoninae, a procyonine.
- Any mammal of the family Procyonidae, a procyonid.
- (broadly, proscribed)Any mammal superficially resembling a raccoon, such as a raccoon dog.
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Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From arocoun (1608), from Powhatan ärähkun, from ärähkuněm (“he scratches with his hands”).
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