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Raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings
Answer for the clue "Raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings ", 8 letters:
ringtail
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ringtail , also known as tail necrosis , is an epidermal disease that may occur in rats , mice , hamsters and other rodents . In affected individuals, the tail swells as a consequence of annular constrictions along its length (hence the name "ringtail") ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ringtail \Ring"tail`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A bird having a distinct band of color across the tail, as the hen harrier. (Naut.) A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail . Ringtail boom (Naut.), a spar which is ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A ring-tailed animal, notably: 2 # The capuchin monkey 3 # A raccoon 4 # The cacomistle, a small carnivorous mammal, ''Bassariscus astutus'', somewhat like a raccoon, native to the southwestern United States 5 (context nautical English) A ringsail.
Usage examples of ringtail.
Still as a statue in the almost realized hope of going unnoticed was a ringtail cat.
The ringtail was not much food, and was tough and strong-tasting, but its meat gave him strength.
You want the smaller skins, treewee, ringtail, even swamp rat, no less beautiful than the others.
His mother had trapped many creatures: coatis, and ringtails, and foxes.
Later, when they camped for the night, Conan could set snares for rabbits or ringtails, which they could roast over the evening's fire.