raccoon

plural raccoons · alternative racoon · alternative rarowcun · alternative r'coon · alternative coon

1. 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.
2. The common raccoon (Procyon lotor).

   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.

   2010 April 3, Charlie Brooker, “Screen Burn”, in The Guardian

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   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.

   1624, Iohn [i.e., John] Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: […], London: […] I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn] H[aviland] for Michael Sparkes, →OCLC

   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.

   1634, William Wood, “Of the Beasts that Live on the Land”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 22

   Synonyms: coon, common raccoon, North American raccoon, northern raccoon, trash panda

3. Any mammal of the subfamily Procyoninae, a procyonine.
4. Any mammal of the family Procyonidae, a procyonid.
5. broadlyproscribedAny mammal superficially resembling a raccoon, such as a raccoon dog.

1. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Franklin Township, Putnam County, Indiana.
   2. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky.
   3. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
   4. Four townships, one each in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania, listed under Raccoon Township.