giant panda

What does giant panda mean?

giant panda 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 giant panda?

Close synonyms include panda, panda bear, coon bear, Ailuropoda melanoleuca. 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 giant panda a common word?

giant panda 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 giant panda come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.