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giant panda

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A rare, black and white mammal, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, in the ursid (bear) family.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: panda, panda bear, coon bear, Ailuropoda melanoleuca

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: procyonid

History

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Across languages

Translations

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Aragonese: panda — mammal
  • Aragonese: panda chigant — mammal
  • Assamese: বৰ পাণ্ডা (bor panda) — mammal
  • Assamese: ডাঙৰ পাণ্ডা (daṅor panda) — mammal
  • Assamese: পাণ্ডা ভালুক (panda bhaluk) — mammal
  • Asturian: panda — mammal
  • Asturian: osu panda — mammal
  • Chinese Cantonese: 熊貓 /熊猫 — mammal
  • Chinese Cantonese: 大熊貓 /大熊猫 (daai6 hung4 maau1) — mammal
  • Chinese Mandarin: 熊貓 /熊猫 (xióngmāo) — mammal
  • Chinese Mandarin: 大熊貓 /大熊猫 (dàxióngmāo) — mammal
  • Chinese Mandarin: 貓熊 /猫熊 (māoxióng) — mammal
  • Chinese Mandarin: 大貓熊 /大猫熊 (dàmāoxióng) — mammal
  • Czech: panda velká — mammal
  • Danish: panda — mammal
  • Dutch: panda — mammal
  • Dutch: pandabeer — mammal
  • Dutch: reuzenpanda — mammal
  • Esperanto: granda pando — mammal
  • Finnish: isopanda — mammal
  • Finnish: jättiläispanda — mammal
  • Finnish: panda — mammal
  • Finnish: pandakarhu — mammal
  • French: ours panda — mammal
  • French: panda géant — mammal
  • German: Panda — mammal
  • German: Pandabär — mammal
  • Hungarian: óriáspanda — mammal
  • Icelandic: panda — mammal
  • Icelandic: pandabjörn — mammal
  • Icelandic: pandabirna — mammal
  • Irish: ollphanda — mammal
  • Italian: panda gigante — mammal
  • Japanese: ジャイアントパンダ (jaianto panda) — mammal
  • Japanese: 大熊猫 (ōkumaneko) — mammal
  • Korean: 판다 (panda) — mammal
  • Norwegian: panda — mammal
  • Nuosu: ꊉꏲ (wop ju) — mammal
  • Polish: panda wielka — mammal
  • Polish: panda — mammal
  • Polish: niedźwiedź bambusowy — mammal
  • Portuguese: panda — mammal
  • Portuguese: panda-gigante — mammal
  • Russian: па́нда (pánda) — mammal
  • Serbo-Croatian: panda — mammal
  • Spanish: panda — mammal
  • Swedish: panda — mammal
  • Tamil: பாண்டா கரடி (pāṇṭā karaṭi) — mammal
  • Thai: หมีแพนด้า (mi-pan-da) — mammal
  • Tibetan: དོམ་ཁྲ (dom khra) — mammal
  • Turkish: büyük panda — mammal
  • Turkish: bambu ayısı — mammal
  • Uyghur: چوڭ مۈشۈكئېيىق (chong müshük'ëyiq) — mammal
  • Uyghur: مۈشۈكئېيىق (müshük'ëyiq) — mammal
  • Vietnamese: gấu trúc lớn — mammal