ailuropoda melanoleuca

What does ailuropoda melanoleuca mean?

ailuropoda melanoleuca means "large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet; in some classifications considered a member of the bear family or of a separate family Ailuropodidae".

What is another word for ailuropoda melanoleuca?

Close synonyms include giant panda, panda, panda bear, coon bear. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ailuropoda melanoleuca a common word?

ailuropoda melanoleuca is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ailuropoda melanoleuca come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.