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UK
/pˈɔːkjuːpˌaɪn/
]
[ US /ˈpɔɹkjəˌpaɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈpɔɹkjəˌpaɪn/ ]
NOUN
- relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur
How To Use porcupine In A Sentence
- The prehensile tail porcupine in South American actually lives in the treetops.
- Whole lions at £5,000 a head, antelopes, porcupines, goats, cane rats and large, live snails - all from West Africa - were also candidates for the dinner table.
- The porcupine will gnaw at the base of the maize stalk and drop it, and in doing so is able to get to the maize cob.
- Many of the Indians were already crowding about the train, some with polished buffalo horns for sale, and all magnificently dressed in buckskin, decorated with fine, old-fashioned bead work, and the quills of the porcupine. The Shagganappi
- The Erethizontidae is a family of rodents commonly known as the New World porcupines.
- There, a porcupine, wild boar, pig, stupid pig, Ukraine, pig eight quit of little piglets species.
- Some describe it as a red-eyed E. look-alike with porcupine quills running down his spine.
- At night, light from the interior radiates out in thousands of shimmering pinpricks, like a spectacularly illuminated porcupine.
- These elaborately painted masks represent a pair of horned animals, each with a porcupine quill sprouting from its head.
- Wrasse, butterflies, boxfish, porcupines and pufferfish round out the picture, while lyretail grouper, Napoleon wrasse and rock cod mix with regal, map and other angelfish.