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OLD WORLD PORCUPINE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Terrestrial porcupine

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Old World porcupine" is a kind of...):

hedgehog; porcupine (relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Old World porcupine"):

brush-tail porcupine; brush-tailed porcupine (porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail)

long-tailed porcupine; Trichys lipura (porcupine of Borneo and Sumatra having short spines and a long tail)

Holonyms ("Old World porcupine" is a member of...):

family Hystricidae; Hystricidae (Old World porcupines)

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