a large black-and-white plant-eating mammal of western China resembling a bear but related to the raccoons: Ailuropoda melanoleuca. Also called giant panda
a long-tailed Himalayan flesh-eating mammal resembling the American raccoon and having long chestnut fur spotted with black: Ailurus fulgens. Also called red panda
[French panda, from the Nepalese name of the red panda]