Noun

(en noun)

(colloquial) Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.

The genus Lemur , represented by the ring-tailed lemur ().

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, year=1758 , author=Linnaeus, C. , title=Systema Naturæ , volume=1 , edition=10 citation , publisher=Laurentius Salvius , location=Stockholm, Sweden , pages=29–30 , pageurl=http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726922 }}

(obsolete) The genus for a loris (), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ .

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, year=1754 , author=Linnaeus, C. , title=Museum Adolphi Friderici Regis citation , publisher=Typographia Regia , location=Stockholm, Sweden , page=3–4 , pageurl=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k972707/f36.image , passage="Lemures dixi hos, quod noctu imprimis obambulant, hominibus quodanmodo similes, & lento passu vagantur." , translation=[I call them lemurs , because they go around mainly by night, in a certain way similar to humans, and roam with a slow pace.] }}

Noun

(en noun)

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.

* 2010 , Charlie Brooker, "Screen Burn", The Guardian , 3 Apr 2010:

Thus we're presented witha man who has the head of his penis bitten off by a raccoon , then bleeds to death in a forest.

Any mammal of the genus Procyon .

Any mammal of the subfamily Procyoninae, a procyonine.

Any mammal of the family Procyonidae, a procyonid.