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panda

1. a large black-and-white herbivorous bearlike mammal, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, related to the raccoons and inhabiting the high mountain bamboo forests of China: family Procyonidae
2. lesser or red panda a closely related smaller animal resembling a raccoon, Ailurus fulgens, of the mountain forests of S Asia, having a reddish-brown coat and ringed tail
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

panda

[′pan·də]
(vertebrate zoology)
Either of two Asian species of carnivores in the family Procyonidae; the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) has long, thick, red fur, with black legs; the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is white, with black legs and black patches around the eyes.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Panda

(1) A family of security software from Panda Security, Bilbao, Spain (www.pandasecurity.com). Among other products, it offers a cloud-based antivirus program that collects malware data from all of its users that are passed on to the rest of the Panda community within a few minutes. See antivirus.

(2) A periodic set of changes to the Google search algorithm. See Google algorithm.

(3) (Panda Project) See Archistrat computer.
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Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding is a major tourist attraction, with up to 100,000 visitors daily and thousands filing past the panda nursery, furiously snapping photographs.
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As per the latest statistics, the red panda population has dropped to 10,000 only owing to an ever-increasing rate of deforestation throughout the South and Southeast Asian region.
The result: pandas have been moved from the endangered list to the vulnerable species list.
The Red Panda Network is an organization trying to do just that.
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The US Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC, has announced the arrival of a rare giant panda cub.
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