panda

[ pan-duh ]

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noun

Also called giant panda. a white-and-black, bearlike mammal, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, now rare and restricted to forest areas of central China containing stands of bamboo, on which it mainly subsists: formerly placed with the raccoon family but now classified as a bear subfamily, Ailuropodinae, or as the sole member of a separate family, Ailuropodidae, which diverged from an ancestral bear lineage.
Also called lesser panda. a reddish-brown, raccoonlike mammal, Ailurus fulgens, of mountain forests in the Himalayas and adjacent eastern Asia, subsisting mainly on bamboo and other vegetation, fruits, and insects, and reduced in numbers by collectors: now considered unrelated to the giant panda and usually classified as the sole member of an Old World raccoon subfamily, Ailurinae, which diverged from an ancestral lineage that also gave rise to the New World raccoons.

panda

/ ˈpændə /

Also calledgiant panda a large black-and-white herbivorous bearlike mammal, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, related to the raccoons and inhabiting the high mountain bamboo forests of China: family Procyonidae
lesser panda
lesser pandared panda a closely related smaller animal resembling a raccoon, Ailurus fulgens, of the mountain forests of S Asia, having a reddish-brown coat and ringed tail

Origin of panda¹

1825–35; < French (Cuvier), a name for the lesser panda, perhaps < a Tibeto-Burman language of the southeastern Himalayas

Origin of panda¹

C19: via French from a native Nepalese word

Triplet panda cubs born this past July were reunited with their mother, Juxiao, in a Chinese zoo this week.

The grand prize is a pristine white Fiat Panda 4X4 – with full options.

Vineberg's were said by police to be Panda, Black List, or Red Bull.

Panda-Patrice smothers sweet and sour sauce on his lips and grins at the camera.

Panda-Patrice hybrid plays board games with five young girls whilst rapping “Get me broccoli/While I play Monopoly.”

I will conclude with the following proverb, which comes in very appropriately: En retudi panda nasti abela macha.

The Milinda Panda mentions the royal astrologer as one of the principal functionaries of Menander.

Is it that the fates of battle 'gainst the Kuru house combine, Is it that thy heart's affection unto Panda's sons incline?

Panda, pan′da, n. a remarkable animal in the bear section of Carnivores found in the south-east Himalayas.

This is a very curious animal, which, like the panda and the linsang, at first misled naturalists in assigning it a place.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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