noun
terrestrial porcupine
• Hyponyms: ↑brush-tailed porcupine, ↑brush-tail porcupine, ↑long-tailed porcupine, ↑Trichys lipura
• Member Holonyms: ↑Hystricidae, ↑family Hystricidae
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nounUsage: 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.