racoon

British

/ rəˈkuːn /

noun

a variant spelling of raccoon

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The second racoon to be caught was found by staff at the top of the zoo's parrot perches on Saturday evening.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2024

Similar strategies have already been carried out to prevent racoon rabies in the U.S. and fox rabies in Europe, and also to protect cattle against tick-borne disease.

From Science Daily • Oct. 18, 2023

In 1926, someone sent a live racoon to the White House, with the idea that the first family could have it for dinner.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2023

It’s only partially explained, but the head honcho racoon, Tom Nook, appears to be the one who arranged for all of you to move to this island.

From Slate • May 5, 2020

And in his early days of ushering, he’d once Recollected with a racoon who’d belonged to Pain, and quite frankly, he saw things he could not unsee.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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