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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ring·tail /-ˌtel/
 環尾貓熊

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ring·tail n.
 1. Zool. A bird having a distinct band of color across the tail, as the hen harrier.
 2. Naut. A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
 Ringtail boom Naut., a spar which is rigged on a boom for setting a ringtail.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 ringtail
      n 1: raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the
           southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with
           black and white rings [syn: bassarisk, cacomistle, cacomixle,
            coon cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, civet
           cat, miner's cat, Bassariscus astutus]
      2: North American raccoon [syn: common raccoon, common
         racoon, coon, Procyon lotor]
      3: monkey of Central America and South America having a cowl of
         thick hair on the head [syn: capuchin, Cebus capucinus]
      4: an immature golden eagle