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Panda (song)

Panda (song): 2015/2016 debut single by Brooklyn rapper Desiigner, produced by Menace; basis of Kanye West's Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 2; two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2016.

Panda Bear (musician)

Panda Bear is the stage name of Noah Lennox, Baltimore-born co-founder of Animal Collective and solo artist since 1999, known for Person Pitch (2007), Tomboy, Sinister Grift (2025), and albums with Sonic Boom.

Panda Boi

Panda Boi is Federico Hu, an Italian-Chinese YouTuber born in 2002, known for choice-based street comedy shorts; his channel, created December 2020, is Italy's most subscribed with about 62 million subscribers.

Panda bond

A panda bond is a bond issued in mainland China by a foreign institution and denominated in renminbi, giving overseas issuers access to China's domestic bond market.

Panda diplomacy

Panda diplomacy: China's practice of gifting or lending giant pandas to foreign countries as soft-power tools, from Tang dynasty gifts through the 1972 Nixon-era gift of Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing to modern $1 million-per-year loans with offspring returned to China.

PANDA experiment

PANDA (antiProton ANnihilations at Darmstadt) is a key particle physics experiment under construction at FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, using antiproton annihilation to study hadrons and the strong interaction.

Panda Express

Panda Express is an American fast-casual restaurant chain serving American Chinese food, founded by Andrew and Peggy Cherng, with about 2,600 US locations and its signature Orange Chicken.

PANDA fiber

PANDA fiber is a polarization-maintaining optical fiber in which two stress rods on either side of the core create strong birefringence, used mainly in fiber-optic gyroscopes and interferometric sensors.

Panda House (China)

Panda House (熊猫馆) is the giant panda enclosure at Beijing Zoo, China's oldest zoo. Built 1990 for the Asian Games, expanded 2008, and replaced by a 13,000 m² Three-Star Green Building in 2026 housing 10 pandas including Meng Lan.

Panda Pavilion

Panda Pavilion (大连熊猫馆) is the giant panda exhibit of Dalian Forest Zoo, Liaoning, China. Opened 29 September 2012, it was Northeast China's first permanent all-weather panda facility, housing three giant pandas and over twenty red pandas.

Panda Plan

Panda Plan (熊猫计划) is a 2024 Chinese action comedy directed by Zhang Luan, starring Jackie Chan as himself protecting CGI panda Hu Hu from mercenaries; released October 1, 2024, it passed 200 million yuan in its first week and spawned a 2026 sequel.

Panda Plan: The Magical Tribe

Panda Plan: The Magical Tribe (熊猫计划之部落奇遇记) is Derek Hui's 2026 Chinese family action-comedy, the sequel to Panda Plan, starring Jackie Chan and panda Hu Hu in a hidden tribe; it opened 17 February 2026 and grossed 287 million yuan in China.

Panda Restaurant Group

Panda Restaurant Group is the family-owned company behind Panda Express, Panda Inn, and Hibachi-San, founded by Andrew and Peggy Cherng, who opened the first Panda Inn in Pasadena in 1973.

Panda Temple power station

The Panda Temple power station is a natural gas-fired combined-cycle power station in Temple, Texas, comprising two adjacent plants, Panda Temple I and II, each rated at 758 megawatts.

Panda TV

Panda TV (熊猫直播) was a Chinese game livestreaming platform founded in 2015 by Wang Sicong, which shut down in March 2019 and was declared bankrupt in 2021.

Panda Valley

Panda Valley (熊猫谷), the Dujiangyan Field Research Center for Giant Pandas, is a field facility of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Dujiangyan, Sichuan, focused on panda wild training, reintroduction, and ecotourism; opened April 20, 2015, distinct from the CCRCGP Dujiangyan base.

Pandabuy

Pandabuy was a Chinese shopping agent that bought goods for overseas customers and shipped them internationally, raided by police over counterfeit goods in April 2024.

Pandaga Chesko

Pandaga Chesko (పండగ చేస్కో), 2015 Telugu action drama directed by Gopichand Malineni, starring Ram Pothineni, Rakul Preet Singh, and Sonal Chauhan; released 29 May 2015, music by S. Thaman, streaming on ZEE5.

Pandalus borealis

Pandalus borealis (northern shrimp, pink shrimp, deep-sea prawn), a small cold-water North Atlantic pandalid shrimp and protandric hermaphrodite; basis of major fisheries in Norway, Greenland, Iceland, and Canada, but collapsed and under moratorium in the Gulf of Maine since 2014.

Pandanaceae

Pandanaceae, the screw-pine family (pandan), is a Paleotropical family of dioecious monocots in Pandanales with five genera, Benstonea, Freycinetia, Martellidendron, Pandanus, and Sararanga, and c. 700–750 species of spiny-leaved trees, shrubs, and climbers.

Pandanales

Pandanales is a monocot order of flowering plants with five families, Cyclanthaceae, Pandanaceae, Stemonaceae, Triuridaceae, and Velloziaceae, about 36 genera and 1,345 species, sister to Dioscoreales, united by molecular systematics.

Pandanus

Pandanus (screw pines), genus of 450-600 Old World tropical and Pacific trees and shrubs in Pandanaceae, dioecious with prop roots, spiny spiral leaves, pineapple-like drupe heads; beetle-pollinated; leaves woven, fruits eaten.

Pandanus amaryllifolius

Pandanus amaryllifolius (pandan, pandan wangi) is a Maluku-native Pandanaceae shrub grown across Southeast Asia for fragrant leaves rich in 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, used to flavor and color food and studied for antioxidant, hypoglycemic, and antimicrobial bioactivity.

PandaPark (Russia)

PandaPark (ПандаПарк) is a Russian network of rope parks with sites in Moscow, Moscow Oblast, and shopping centers, offering height-graded obstacle courses from 90 cm with continuous double safety lines.

Pandara Pattam settlement

The Pandara Pattam settlement (പന്തരപട്ടം) was the land-revenue settlement of Travancore completed by the Royal Pattom Proclamation of 1865, which gave cultivators permanent, heritable, and saleable rights over state-owned pandaravaka lands.

Pandari Bai (ಪಂಡರಿ ಬಾಯಿ)

Pandari Bai (ಪಂಡರಿ ಬಾಯಿ), also Pandharibai, was a South Indian actress (1928 or 1930–2003), Kannada cinema's first successful heroine, heroine in Parasakthi and Bedara Kannappa, and a producer.

PANDAS

PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections), a 1998 NIMH-described subtype of PANS, is sudden-onset childhood OCD or tics temporally linked to Group A strep infection; diagnosis is clinical, treatment is CBT, SSRIs, and antibiotics for confirmed strep.

Pandas (software)

Pandas, also known as Python Pandas, is an open-source Python library for data analysis whose Series and DataFrame structures are built on NumPy; development began in 2008.

PandasAI

PandasAI, also written pandas-ai, is an open-source MIT-licensed Python library by Sinaptik-AI that lets users query pandas DataFrames and databases conversationally via LLMs; created by Gabriele Venturi in April 2023, YC W24, CVE-2024-12366 prompt injection noted.

PandaSet

PandaSet is an open-source dataset for autonomous driving research, released in May 2020 by Scale AI with the LiDAR maker Hesai, and free for commercial use.