ring-tailed cat

Questions about ring-tailed cat

What does ring-tailed cat mean?

ring-tailed 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 ring-tailed 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 ring-tailed cat a common word?

ring-tailed 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.