- brush-tail porcupine
- nounporcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail• Syn: ↑brush-tailed porcupine• Hypernyms: ↑Old World porcupine• Member Holonyms: ↑Atherurus, ↑genus Atherurus
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brush-tail porcupine
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brush-tailed porcupine — noun porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail • Syn: ↑brush tail porcupine • Hypernyms: ↑Old World porcupine • Member Holonyms: ↑Atherurus, ↑genus Atherurus * * * noun … Useful english dictionary
Brush-tailed porcupine — Taxobox name = Brush tailed porcupines fossil range = Early Pleistocene to Recent image width = 300px image caption = African brush tailed porcupine sold for meat in Cameroon regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Rodentia… … Wikipedia
African Brush-tailed Porcupine — Taxobox name = African Brush tailed Porcupine status = LC status system = iucn3.1 trend = unknown image width = 300px image caption = African brush tailed porcupine sold for meat in Cameroon regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia… … Wikipedia
Porcupine — Taxobox name = Porcikupines| image caption = North American Porcupine regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Rodentia subordo = Hystricomorpha subdivision ranks = General subdivision = Family Erethizontidae : Coendou :… … Wikipedia
Old World porcupine — noun terrestrial porcupine • Hypernyms: ↑porcupine, ↑hedgehog • Hyponyms: ↑brush tailed porcupine, ↑brush tail porcupine, ↑long tailed porcupine, ↑Trichys lipura … Useful english dictionary
porcupine — /pawr kyeuh puyn /, n. any of several rodents covered with stiff, sharp, erectile spines or quills, as Erethizon dorsatum of North America. [1375 1425; late ME porcupyne, var. of porcapyne; r. porke despyne < MF porc d espine thorny pig. See PORK … Universalium
Old World porcupine — Old World porcupines Temporal range: Early Miocene–Recent … Wikipedia
Crested Porcupine — in captivity Conservation status … Wikipedia
Malayan Porcupine — Himalayan Crestless Porcupine H. b. hodgsoni from India Conservation status … Wikipedia
Atherurus — noun a genus of Hystricidae • Syn: ↑genus Atherurus • Hypernyms: ↑mammal genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Hystricidae, ↑family Hystricidae • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
