A panda is a large bear-like animal with black-and-white fur that lives mainly in Chinese mountain forests. It eats mostly bamboo and is considered an endangered species.
From French 'panda', originally used for the red panda, possibly from a Nepali word 'ponya' meaning 'bamboo eater'. The name was later applied to the giant panda we usually think of today.
The giant panda actually got its name second; the red panda had the word 'panda' first. So the animal everyone thinks of as 'the panda' is technically the name-borrower in this story.
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