raccoon fox

Questions about raccoon fox

What does raccoon fox mean?

raccoon fox 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 raccoon fox?

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

raccoon fox 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.