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PANDA

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reddish-brown Old World raccoon-like carnivore; in some classifications considered unrelated to the giant pandas

Synonyms:

Ailurus fulgens; bear cat; cat bear; lesser panda; panda; red panda

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("panda" is a kind of...):

procyonid (plantigrade carnivorous mammals)

Holonyms ("panda" is a member of...):

Ailurus; genus Ailurus (lesser pandas)

Sense 2

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

Synonyms:

Ailuropoda melanoleuca; coon bear; giant panda; panda; panda bear

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("panda" is a kind of...):

procyonid (plantigrade carnivorous mammals)

Holonyms ("panda" is a member of...):

Ailuropoda; genus Ailuropoda (only the giant panda: in some classifications considered a genus of the separate family Ailuropodidae)

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 Context examples: 

But conservation programs limiting timber harvesting have chalked up wins in preserving panda habitat.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

Then, over a year they compared the activity of the horses with that of three collared adult pandas in some of the same areas, and combined resulting data with habitat data.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

For years, timber harvesting has been the panda's biggest threat.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

China invests billions to protect its panda habitat and conserve the 1,600 remaining endangered supported by this habitat.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

To understand the scope of the problem, Hull and her colleagues put the same type of GPS collars they were using to track pandas on one horse in each of four herds they studied.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

Vanessa Hull, a doctoral student at MSU's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS), has been living off and on for seven years in the Wolong Nature Reserve, most recently tracking pandas that she has outfitted with GPS collars.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)