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cacomistle definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings [syn: bassarisk, cacomistle, cacomixle, coon cat, raccoon fox, ringtail, ring- tailed cat, civet cat, miner's cat, Bassariscus astutus]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Mexican Spanish, from Nahuatl tlahcomiztli, from tlahco half + miztli mountain lion Date: 1869 ringtail 2

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. any racoon-like animal of several species of the genus Bassariscus, native to Central America, having a dark-ringed tail. Etymology: Amer. Sp. cacomixtle f. Nahuatl tlacomiztli