panda

Other forms of panda

plural

pandas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about panda

What does panda mean?

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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in panda?

panda has 2 syllables: pan-da. The stress falls on "pan". In IPA it is /ˈpændə/.

What is another word for panda?

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

panda is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.