Raccoon

Noun

 * 1) A nocturnal omnivore originally living in Northern America, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail; Procyon lotor.
 * 2) * 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 64:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 2010, Charlie Brooker, "Screen Burn", The Guardian, 3 Apr 2010:
 * 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.
 * 1) Any mammal of the genus Procyon.

Derived terms

 * raccoon dog

Thesaurus
Cape polecat, ape, bar, bear, cavy, chimp, chimpanzee, coon, ferret, foumart, glutton, groundhog, guinea pig, hedgehog, monk, monkey, mousehound, opossum, polecat, porcupine, possum, prairie dog, quill pig, skunk, weasel, whistle-pig, wolverine, woodchuck, zoril

Alternative forms

 * racoon
 * rarowcun

Etymology
From ahrah-koon-em:.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: yenot
 * Basque: mapatxe
 * Belarusian: янот
 * Bulgarian: енот
 * Cherokee:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 浣熊
 * Czech:
 * Danish: vaskebjørn
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: lav-urso
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, Schupp
 * Hindi: रैकून
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: アライグマ, 洗熊


 * Lakota: wica
 * Latvian: jenots
 * Macedonian: ракун
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: vaskebjørn
 * Ojibwe: ᐁᐦᓯᐸᓐ (esiban) na
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: guaxinim
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ракун
 * Roman: rakun
 * Slovak: mýval
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, oso lavador, zorra manglera, gato manglatero
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: єнот
 * Volapük: räkun,  hiräkun,  jiräkun,  räkunül,  hiräkunül,  jiräkunül


 * Finnish:
 * French: procyonidé


 * Swedish: