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New World porcupine

New World porcupine noun: any of the large, arboreal, spiny-furred rodents of the family Erethizontidae, native to forests and wooded regions of North America and northern South America.

new world porcupine: any of the large, arboreal, spiny-furred rodents of the family Erethizontidae, native to forests...
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Noun

New World porcupine (plural New World porcupines)

  1. Any of the large, arboreal, spiny-furred rodents of the family Erethizontidae, native to forests and wooded regions of North America and northern South America.
    • New World porcupines, found in both North and South America, are arboreal and climb trees with agility, aided in some species by a prehensile tail.2004, Fred Cooke, editor, The Encyclopedia of Animals: A Complete Visual Guide, page 232
    • The bizarre structure, shared with the New World porcupines, so impressed Stuart Landry that he argued for a common origin for the New World and Old World hystricomorphs long before the mainstream of biologists felt ready to do so (Pocock 1922; Dathe 1937; Landry 19572009, Uldis Roze, The North American Porcupine, page 206
    Synonyms:
    erethizontid

Synonyms of New World porcupine

Forms of New World porcupine

pluralNew World porcupines

Questions about New World porcupine

What does New World porcupine mean?
New World porcupine means any of the large, arboreal, spiny-furred rodents of the family Erethizontidae, native to forests and wooded regions of North America and northern South America.
What part of speech is New World porcupine?
New World porcupine is a noun.
What is the plural of New World porcupine?
The plural of New World porcupine is New World porcupines.

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