Akademik

New World porcupine

noun

arboreal porcupine

• Hypernyms: ↑porcupine, ↑hedgehog

• Hyponyms: ↑Canada porcupine, ↑Erethizon dorsatum

• Member Holonyms: ↑Erethizontidae, ↑family Erethizontidae

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noun

Usage: usually capitalized N&W

: any or numerous more-or-less arboreal porcupines constituting a family (Erethizontidae) restricted to No. and So. America

Useful english dictionary. 2012.