What is another word for porcupine?

Pronunciation: [pˈɔːkjuːpˌa͡ɪn] (IPA)

Porcupines are fascinating and spiky mammals often found in North America. They're known for their sharp quills, which they use for self-defense. If you're looking for synonyms for the word "porcupine," there are plenty of options. One of the most commonly used is "hedgehog," which refers to a smaller, less aggressive version of the porcupine. Another synonym is "echidna," which is a type of porcupine found in Australia and New Guinea. Other synonyms include "quilled critter" and "spiky rodent." Whatever you call it, the porcupine is a unique and interesting animal that deserves attention and respect.

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Usage examples for Porcupine

No other living thing was seen hour after hour, save a solitary eagle high in the air, a few lizards darting about the clumps of porcupine grass, and ants and flies.
"In the Musgrave Ranges"
Jim Bushman
None whatever, my young porcupine.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell
All at once a porcupine sprung up beside it, as if out of the earth, and the two appeared on the very best of terms.
"The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy"
Mabel Henriette Spielmann

Famous quotes with Porcupine

  • Our society, it turns out, can use modern art. A restaurant, today, will order a mural by Míro in as easy and matter-of-fact a spirit as, twenty-five years ago, it would have ordered one by Maxfield Parrish. The president of a paint factory goes home, sits down by his fireplace—it like a chromium aquarium set into the wall by a wall-safe company that has branched out into interior decorating, but there is a log burning in it, he calls it a firelace, let’s call it a fireplace too—the president sits down, folds his hands on his stomach, and stares at two paintings by Jackson Pollock that he has hung on the wall opposite him. He feels at home with them; in fact, as he looks at them he not only feels at home, he feels as if he were back at the paint factory. And his children—if he has any—his children cry for Calder. He uses thoroughly advanced, wholly non-representational artists to design murals, posters, institutional advertisements: if we have the patience (or are given the opportuity) to wait until the West has declined a little longer, we shall all see the advertisements of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Smith illustrated by Jean Dubuffet. This president’s minor executives may not be willing to hang a Kandinsky in the house, but they will wear one, if you make it into a sport shirt or a pair of swimming-trunks; and if you make it into a sofa, they will lie on it. They and their wives and children will sit on a porcupine, if you first exhibit it at the Museum of Modern Art and say that it is a chair. In fact, there is nothing, nothing in the whole world that someone won’t buy and sit in if you tell him it is a chair: the great new art form of our age, the one that will take anything we put in it, is the chair. If Hieronymus Bosch, if Christian Morgenstern, if the Marquis de Sade were living at this hour, what chairs they would be designing!
    Randall Jarrell

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