procyon

1. 1.

   the brightest star in Canis Minor

   Broaderbinary star

   Part ofCanis Minor
2. 2.

   the type genus of the family Procyonidae: raccoons

   Synonymsgenus Procyon

   Broadermammal genus

   Part ofProcyonidae

Other forms of procyon

plural

procyons·

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 procyon

What does procyon mean?

procyon means "the brightest star in Canis Minor". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in procyon?

procyon has 2 syllables: pro-cyon. The stress falls on "pro".

What is another word for procyon?

Close synonyms include genus Procyon. 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 procyon a common word?

procyon 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.