raccoon dog

raccoon dog

English

A raccoon dog.

Noun

raccoon dog (plural raccoon dogs)

1. The canid Nyctereutes procyonoides, the only extant species in the genus Nyctereutes of the Canidae or dog family, native to East Asia and widely introduced elsewhere in other cool parts of Eurasia.
   • 2016, Aisling Irwin, Furry aliens on Europe’s hit list, New Scientist, Issue 3063, page 8,

     OBLIVIOUS to his sterilisation, Judas the raccoon dog treks through Sweden’s countryside in search of a mate. At last he finds one, only for their liaison to end when she is shot. He trudges on and finds another, but she is killed too. This is his destiny: he is a radio-tagged lure leading hunters to the last live raccoon dogs in the country.

Synonyms

• mangut
• tanuki

Translations

Nyctereutes procyonoides

Ainu: モユㇰ (moyuk), ヌマリ (numari) Armenian: ջրարջանման շուն (ǰrarǰanman šun), ջրարջակերպ շուն (ǰrarǰakerp šun) Catalan: gos viverrí m Chinese: Mandarin: 貉子 (zh) (háozi) Danish: mårhund c Dutch: wasbeerhond (nl) m, marterhond Esperanto: niktereŭto Estonian: kährikkoer Finnish: supikoira (fi) French: chien viverrin (fr) m Georgian: ენოტისმსგავსი ძაღლი (enoṭismsgavsi ʒaɣli) German: Marderhund (de) m Hebrew: שׁוּעָל רָקוּן‎ m (shu'ál raqún) Hungarian: nyestkutya (hu) Indonesian: anjing rakun Italian: cane procione, nittereute (it) Japanese: 狸 (ja) (たぬき, tanuki) Korean: 너구리 (ko) (neoguri) Lao: please add this translation if you can Malay: anjing rakun Navajo: tábąąh mąʼiiniiʼí Negidal: please add this translation if you can Nivkh: please add this translation if you can Okinawan: 狸 (たぬき, tanuki) Oroch: please add this translation if you can Polish: jenot (pl) m Portuguese: tanuki m Romanian: enot (ro) m Russian: енотови́дная соба́ка (ru) f (jenotovídnaja sobáka) Spanish: perro mapache m Swedish: mårdhund (sv) c Thai: จิ้งจอกแร็กคูน Udihe: please add this translation if you can Ulch: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: lửng chó Welsh: racŵn-gi m

See also

• Japanese marten

References

• raccoon dog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Nyctereutes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Nyctereutes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons