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Raccoon vs Region - What's the difference?

raccoon | region |

As nouns the difference between raccoon and region

is that raccoon is 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 while region is region; area.

raccoon

English

(wikipedia raccoon)

Alternative forms

* racoon * rarowcun * r'coon (colloquial contraction)

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.

    • Synonyms

    * (Procyon lotor) coon (colloquial), (common raccoon), (North American raccoon), northern raccoon

    Derived terms

    * coon * coon dog * coonhound * (Cozumel raccoon) * crab-eating raccoon * in a raccoon's age / in a coon's age * (pygmy raccoon) * (raccoon butterfly) * (raccoon butterflyfish), * raccoon dog * raccoon eyes

    region

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia region) (en noun)
  • Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.
    • the equatorial regions
    the temperate regions
    the polar regions
    the upper regions of the atmosphere
  • An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
  • (historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.
  • (figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
  • (anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
    • the abdominal regions
  • (obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
  • (obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.

    • Related terms

    * regional * regionally * regionarius * regionary * regionic * radiate * radiation

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