Home › Words › C › cacomistlecacomistlecacomistle means any of species Bassariscus sumichrasti or other arboreal relatives of racoons and other procyonids.EtymologyBorrowed from Spanish cacomixtle, itself borrowed from Classical Nahuatl tlahcomiztli.nounAny of species Bassariscus sumichrasti or other arboreal relatives of racoons and other procyonids.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.bassarisk 60% match — Any member of the genus Bassariscus. vs cacomistle →ringtail 56% match — A ring-tailed animal, notably:; Any of the two extant small nocturnal mammals in the genus Bassariscus, somewhat like raccoons, native to the southwestern United States and Central America.; A North American ringtail, Bassariscus astutus vs cacomistle →cuscus 56% match — Any arboreal marsupial of most genera of the family Phalangeridae, native to northern Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia. vs cacomistle →acocil 56% match — A kind of crayfish (Cambarellus montezumae). vs cacomistle →cusimanse 54% match — Any of several species of dwarf mongoose or small mongoose in the genus Crossarchus, native to West Africa. vs cacomistle →procyonid 54% match — Any member of the family Procyonidae, a New World family of the order Carnivora, including the raccoons, coatis, kinkajous, olingos, ringtails and cacomistles. vs cacomistle →cimolomyid 53% match — Any extinct primitive mammal in the family Cimolomyidae. vs cacomistle →molossine 52% match — A bat of the genus Molossus. vs cacomistle →