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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
raccoon .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her raccoonlike eyes seemed to take up half her face.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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Her raccoonlike eyes seemed to take up half her face.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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Her raccoonlike eyes seemed to take up half her face.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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Her raccoonlike eyes seemed to take up half her face.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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A surly adolescent with ghostly pallor, downward gaze and largely invisible raccoonlike eyes sits in front of a dark background.
A Pathbreaker, Imitated Yet Unsurpassed Willard Spiegelman 2011
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Leon, who spent part of his youth five miles to the south in Zihuatanejo, remembered when it was all wild swamp and mangroves, filled with crocs, waterbirds, raccoonlike coatimundis.
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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Smudged mascara created raccoonlike circles on the pale skin.
Blood Lines Huff, Tanya 1993
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We came across capuchin monkeys and tamarins swinging through the trees, red-footed tortoises retracting into their shells, cutias small rodents, marsh deer, Brazilian tapirs, a raccoonlike ringed-tail coati dashing across our path, and a small anteater called a Southern Tamandua climbing up a tree branch.
NYT > Home Page By SETH KUGEL 2011
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We came across capuchin monkeys and tamarins swinging through the trees, red-footed tortoises retracting into their shells, cutias small rodents, marsh deer, Brazilian tapirs, a raccoonlike ringed-tail coati dashing across our path, and a small anteater called a Southern Tamandua climbing up a tree branch.
NYT > Home Page By SETH KUGEL 2011
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