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• Hedgehogs are needled creatures, just like porcupines.From the entry needled
• A mother porcupine can give birth to between one and four porcupettes at one time.2013, Jeffrey Rouche, Porcupines in the Wild, page 16. From the entry porcupette
• New World porcupines have some arboreal adaptations that are lacking in their more terrestrial Old World counterparts.2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Mammalogy, page 227. From the entry New World porcupine
• Old World porcupines inhabit much of Africa, southern Europe, and Asia.2010, Peter S. Ungar, Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution, and Diversity, page 211. From the entry Old World porcupine
• Rodents are represented by four families: squirrels, Old World porcupines, mice and rats, and bamboo rats.2008, Barbara A. Holzman, Tropical Forest Biomes, page 115. From the entry Old World porcupine
• At least one squirrel death has been reported from a porcupine quill in the chest cavity.1995 October 22, Arizona Daily Sun, Flagstaff, Ariz., page 4. From the entry sciuricide
• With this coatful of painful weapons, it is not surprising that a porcupine has few enemies.1987, Laima Dingwall, Porcupines, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry coatful
• Coyotes, bears, and mountain lions which occasionally kill porcupines are sometimes quilled.1966, David Francis Costello, The World of the Porcupine, J. B. Lippincott & Company, page 66. From the entry quill
• Canadian porcupines may have coats varying from almost black to grizzled brown or "tweedy" slate.1958, Pennsylvania Game Commission, Pennsylvania Game News, volume 29, page 99. From the entry Canadian porcupine
• Again and again, the porcupine has been a teacher, a storyteller of the woods, a complexifier and adorner of the world.2009, Uldis Roze, The North American Porcupine, Cornell University Press, page 14. From the entry complexifier
• Mice, rats, gophers, groundhogs, the jaculiferous porcupine: they're all more or less miniature beavers — just add water.2005, Bill Roorbach, Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey, page 46. From the entry jaculiferous
• Although porcupines lack the ability to throw their quills, they do have the capacity to raise and lower them at will.2000, Warner Shedd, “A “Pig,” Perhaps, but Not a Hog: The Porcupine”, in Owls Aren’t Wise & Bats Aren’t Blind: A Naturalist Debunks Our…. From the entry porky
• You walk like you're riding barebutt on a porcupine.1980, Belinda Hurmence, Tough Tiffany, Doubleday, published 1980, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry barebutt
• Bellying forward to the edge of the clearing, he found Hans, lying on his face, feathered with arrows like a porcupine.1903 July, Jack London, “The Sounding of the Call”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan &…. From the entry belly
• North American porcupines, as well as a range of other Hystricomorph rodents, engage in urine showering as part of courtship and other behaviors.2012, Uldis Roze, Porcupines: The Animal Answer Guide, unnumbered page. From the entry North American porcupine
• And hanging beside the porcupine was what whould have been a nice a nice mountain lion pelt if it had been killed in the winter.2012, C. M. Wendelboe, Death Where the Bad Rocks Live, page 202. From the entry hair up
• 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. From the entry New World porcupine
• The irate Ranger killed thirteen porcupines chewing away on his front porch, and still they came, the salt proving an irresistible lure.1929, Forest and Stream, page 58. From the entry porky
• Here we met with the large and deep lairs of the porcupine (Hystrix cristata) and also of the earth-pig, a devourer of ants and termites.1928, Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Slaves of the sun, page 149. From the entry earth-pig
• We saw many small animals, such as porcupines, a scaly ant-eater, and a wild pig, piebald in color and with long curved tusks.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry piebald
• Birds and animals barely get a mention except as pollinators or antagonists (step forward Sunda porcupines and Java mouse-deer, which cause much botanist heartbreak by gnawing on Rafflesia blooms).2024 March 2, Rachel Aspden, “Blooming marvellous: A love letter to a vast and vanishing flower”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry Java mouse-deer
• The North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) is the largest species in the family, usually weighing less than 7 kg (15.4 pounds) though males occasionally grow significantly larger.2011, John P. Rafferty, editor, Rats, Bats, and Xenarthrans, page 113. From the entry North American porcupine
• I took a knife down from where it hung on the side of the fireplace, & place the sharp tip against the taut body of the porcupine fish.2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 161. From the entry porcupine fish

Meaning of porcupine

1. noun Any of several rodents of either of the taxonomic families Hystricidae (Old World porcupines) or Erethizontidae (New World porcupines), both from the infraorder Hystricognathi, noted for their sharp spines or quills, which are raised when the animal is attacked or surprised.
2. noun An echidna.

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How do you use porcupine in a sentence?

Porcupine is used as a noun. For example: “Hedgehogs are needled creatures, just like porcupines.”

What is a short sentence with porcupine?

“Hedgehogs are needled creatures, just like porcupines.”

What does porcupine mean?

Porcupine means any of several rodents of either of the taxonomic families Hystricidae (Old World porcupines) or Erethizontidae (New World porcupines), both from the infraorder Hystricognathi, noted for their sharp spines or quills, which are raised when the animal is attacked or surprised.