pandas
- 1Plural of panda.
Several pandas have been born at the breeding center this year.
Conservationists tracked the wild pandas across the mountain forest.
Note
A regular -s plural that serves every meaning of panda at once. On its own, pandas today means giant pandas. Calling the small, ring-tailed red panda simply a panda is archaic, so write red pandas when you mean that animal. In British colloquial speech, pandas can also be black-and-white police cars. In Hinduism, the word names the hereditary brahmin superintendents of a ghat or temple.
pandas is a form of panda
panda, noun: A brahmin whose inherited office involves overseeing a particular temple or ghat and who is considered knowledgeable about genealogy and ritual. Full entry
- Forms
- pandapandas plural
- Spelling
- panda → pandas: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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