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PROCYONID

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plantigrade carnivorous mammals

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("procyonid" is a kind of...):

carnivore (a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "procyonid"):

raccoon; racoon (an omnivorous nocturnal mammal native to North America and Central America)

Bassariscus astutus; bassarisk; cacomistle; cacomixle; civet cat; coon cat; miner's cat; raccoon fox; ring-tailed cat; ringtail (raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings)

honey bear; kinkajou; Potos caudivolvulus; Potos flavus; potto (arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail)

coati; coati-mondi; coati-mundi; coon cat; Nasua narica (omnivorous mammal of Central America and South America)

Ailurus fulgens; bear cat; cat bear; lesser panda; panda; red panda (reddish-brown Old World raccoon-like carnivore; in some classifications considered unrelated to the giant pandas)

Ailuropoda melanoleuca; coon bear; giant panda; panda; panda bear (large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet; in some classifications considered a member of the bear family or of a separate family Ailuropodidae)

Holonyms ("procyonid" is a member of...):

family Procyonidae; Procyonidae (raccoons; coatis; cacomistles; kinkajous; and sometimes pandas)

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