miner's cat

Questions about miner's cat

What does miner's cat mean?

miner's cat means "raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings".

What is another word for miner's cat?

Close synonyms include bassarisk, cacomistle, cacomixle, coon cat, raccoon fox. 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 miner's cat a common word?

miner's cat 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.