raccoon
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From Powhatan, from an Algonquian root *ahrah-koon-em ("one who rubs, scrubs and scratches with its hands").
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raccoon (plural raccoons)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 64:
- Any mammal of the genus Procyon.
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nocturnal omnivore living in Northern America
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any mammal of the genus Procyon
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