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Hystricidae

noun

Old World porcupines

• Syn: ↑family Hystricidae

• Hypernyms: ↑mammal family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Hystricomorpha, ↑suborder Hystricomorpha

• Member Meronyms: ↑Old World porcupine, ↑Atherurus, ↑genus Atherurus, ↑Trichys, ↑genus Trichys

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\\hə̇ˈstrisəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Hystric-, Hystrix, type genus + -idae

: a family of Old World hystricomorph rodents comprising the terrestrial porcupines that was formerly extended to include the New World arboreal porcupines — compare erethizontidae

Useful english dictionary. 2012.