crab-eating raccoon

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   a South American raccoon

   SynonymsProcyon cancrivorus

   Broaderraccoon

Questions about crab-eating raccoon

What does crab-eating raccoon mean?

crab-eating raccoon means "a South American raccoon".

What is another word for crab-eating raccoon?

Close synonyms include Procyon cancrivorus. 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 crab-eating raccoon a common word?

crab-eating raccoon 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.