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Old World porcupine

noun

terrestrial porcupine

• Hypernyms: ↑porcupine, ↑hedgehog

• Hyponyms: ↑brush-tailed porcupine, ↑brush-tail porcupine, ↑long-tailed porcupine, ↑Trichys lipura

• Member Holonyms: ↑Hystricidae, ↑family Hystricidae

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noun

Usage: usually capitalized O&W

: a porcupine of the family Hystricidae; especially : a rather bulky short-tailed terrestrial porcupine of the common widely distributed genus Hystrix

Useful english dictionary. 2012.