different between raccoon vs kinkajou

English

Alternative forms

• racoon [from 17th c.]
• rarowcun [17th c.]
• r'coon (colloquial contraction)

Etymology

From arocoun (1608), from Powhatan ärähkun, from ärähkun?m (“he scratches with his hands”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???ku?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ?kun/, /???kun/
• Rhymes: -u?n

Noun

raccoon (plural raccoons)

1. A nocturnal omnivore native to North 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.

   • 1634, William Wood, New Englands Prospect:

     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 Tower.

   • 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.

2. Any mammal of the genus Procyon.
3. Any mammal of the subfamily Procyoninae, a procyonine.
4. Any mammal of the family Procyonidae, a procyonid.

Synonyms

• (Procyon lotor): coon (colloquial), common raccoon, North American raccoon, northern raccoon, trash panda

Derived terms

• coon
• coon dog
• coonhound
• Cozumel raccoon (Procyon pygmaeus)
• crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus)
• in a raccoon's age / in a coon's age
• pygmy raccoon (Procyon pygmaeus)
• raccoon butterfly (Chaetodon fasciatus)
• raccoon butterflyfish, (Chaetodon lunula)
• raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides)
• raccoon eyes

Translations

Anagrams

• carcoon

English

Alternative forms

• kincajou

Etymology

From French quincajou, from an Algonquian word, probably originally meaning ‘wolverine’ (compare Algonquin Kwingwaage, Ojibwe gwiingwa'aage (“wolverine”)), which was later transferred to the South American animal. Related to carcajou.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??k??d?u?/, /?k??k???u?/

Noun

kinkajou (plural kinkajous)

1. Potos flavus, a carnivorous mammal of Central America and South America with a long, prehensile tail, related to the raccoon.

   Synonyms: honey bear, potto

Translations

Further reading

• kinkajou on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• kinkajou on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

French

Alternative forms

• kincajou
• quincajou (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.ka.?u/

Noun

kinkajou m (plural kinkajous)

1. kinkajou
2. (obsolete) wolverine