giant panda

Noun

Meaning

large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet; in some classifications considered a member of the bear family or of a separate family Ailuropodidae

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

panda panda bear Ailuropoda melanoleuca coon bear bearcat meerkat brown bear ursine American black bear black bear sloth bear PANDAS bluebuck Asian black bear Asiatic black bear
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Hypernyms

procyonid

Examples

I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda. Anne Lamott

Delivering a “much-needed moment of pure joy,” the National Zoo’s giant panda Mei Xiang gave birth to a wiggling cub Friday at a time of global pandemic and social unrest. Source: Internet

In 1936, Ruth Harkness became the first Westerner to bring back a live giant panda, a cub named Su Lin citation which went to live at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. Source: Internet

They gave birth to twin cubs on 7 September 2010. citation The zoo was also the site of the first giant panda birth in Europe, in 1982. citation That giant panda cub was named Chu-lin. Source: Internet

At 8 am on Thursday, keepers from the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in the Wolong Nature Reserve used fresh bamboo shoots to lure Cao Cao, a 10-year-old panda, and her male cub, Tao Tao, into separate cages. Source: Internet

A video of a giant panda with the hair on his hind legs shaved off recently went viral online in China turning him into an overnight "celebrity", even though the video was shot in 2008. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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