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porcupine

[ UK /pˈɔːkjuːpˌa‍ɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈpɔɹkjəˌpaɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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.
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