Definition of Ailuropoda

1. Noun. Only the giant panda: in some classifications considered a genus of the separate family Ailuropodidae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Ailuropoda
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Procyonidae, Procyonidae
Member holonyms: Ailuropoda Melanoleuca, Coon Bear, Giant Panda, Panda, Panda Bear

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ailuropoda

Aidoneus
Aiea
Aigaleo
Aigburth
Aighton
Aigina
Aigio
Aiken
Aikens
Aikin
Aikins
Ailanthus altissima
Aileen
Ailey
Ailill mac Máta
Ailuropoda
Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Ailuropodidae
Ailurus
Ailurus fulgens
Aimee
Aimee Semple McPherson
Ain
Ainsdale
Ainsworth
Aintree
Ainu
Air Chief Marshal
Air Combat Command
Air Commodore

Literary usage of Ailuropoda

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Index Generum Mammalium: A List of the Genera and Families of Mammals by Theodore Sherman Palmer (1904)
"Emendation of ailuropoda Milne-Ed wards, 1870. "Le mot ailuropoda ayant iV employé précédemment par M. Gray dans une acception différente [as a íW- tion, ..."

2. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1870)
"... and briefly noticed by M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards under the uame of ailuropoda *. This is a creature as large as some of the smaller species of Bear, ..."

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