raccoon dog

noun

1. a small wild dog of the genus Nyctereutes, common in Asia, resembling a raccoon in coat and coloration.

raccoon dog

noun

1. a canine mammal, Nyctereutes procyonoides , inhabiting woods and forests near rivers in E Asia. It has long yellowish-brown black-tipped hair and facial markings resembling those of a raccoon

2. Also called: coonhound. an American breed of dog having a short smooth black coat with tan markings, bred to hunt raccoons

Word History and Origins

Origin of raccoon dog¹

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

The most abundant DNA was from raccoon dogs, and some was detected in a nearby garbage cart that also tested positive for the virus.

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The animal which came up most frequently in the samples was the common raccoon dog.

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The presence of the coronavirus in samples from the market containing genetic material linked to raccoon dogs, they have said, is consistent with that scenario.

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A virus in civets and raccoon dogs sold in marketplaces in southern China matched the one that sickened humans, and a virus later found in bats looked like its ancestor.

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Two spillovers into people, from a market stall holding infected raccoon dogs, was more parsimonious than two separately infected laboratory workers, carrying their infections independently to the same market.

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