Words similar to raccoon

Example sentences for: raccoon

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The scientific name for the raccoon, Procyon lotor the `doglike washer,' describes this behavior.
(I missed her in last year's Stepmom --my raccoon had hepatitis.)
But the larger vocabulary of English is irrelevant in two respects: much of this larger vocabulary is esoteric, exotic, pedantic, or otherwise as foreign to everyday English usage as Chinese; and whereas vocabulary is quantified by words, the expressive units of French tend to be phrases, such as chemin de fer, joie de vivre , and raton laveur . By the usual lexical reckoning one could say that French has no word for rail-road or raccoon .
Raccoons, particularly baby ones, became fashionable as pets in the late 1970s because of a popular cartoon program on television called Araiguma Rasukaru (Rascal the Raccoon).
I think you are unfair to mock Carver about his derivation of raccoon . A raccoon scrabbling on the bottom of a stream is not, as you put it, “unnatural.”