Porcupine

Noun

 * 1) A large rodent with long quills that stand straight up when it is attacked or surprised.

Related terms

 * hystricine
 * porcine
 * porcus

Thesaurus
Cape polecat, ape, bar, bear, cavy, chimp, chimpanzee, coon, ferret, foumart, glutton, groundhog, guinea pig, hedgehog, monk, monkey, mousehound, opossum, polecat, possum, prairie dog, quill pig, raccoon, skunk, weasel, whistle-pig, wolverine, woodchuck, zoril

Etymology
Literally spiny-pig, from porcus:, + spinus:.

Translations

 * Acholi: coo
 * Afrikaans: ystervark
 * Catalan: porc espí
 * Chinese: 豪猪
 * Cree: ᑳᑲ
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: histriko
 * Finnish:
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 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hopi:
 * Hungarian: sül
 * Italian:, , istrice
 * Japanese: 山荒 (yama-arashi)
 * Korean: 고슴도치 (goseumdochi)


 * Lithuanian: dygliatriušis (some genera), ursonas  (other genera)
 * Luhya:
 * Malay: landak
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: hulepinnsvin
 * Polish:
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 * Sotho:
 * Spanish: puercoespín
 * Swahili: nungunungu (nc 9/10)
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * West Frisian: