brush-tailed porcupine

brush-tailed porcupine
noun
porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail
Hypernyms: ↑Old World porcupine
Member Holonyms: ↑Atherurus, ↑genus Atherurus

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noun or brush-tail porcupine
: any of certain Old World porcupines that constitute the genus Atherurus and have a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail

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  • 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

  • Asiatic Brush-tailed Porcupine — Taxobox name = Asiatic Brush tailed Porcupine status = LR/lc status system = iucn2.3 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Rodentia familia = Hystricidae genus = Atherurus species = A. macrourus binomial = Atherurus… …   Wikipedia

  • African brush-tailed porcupine — afrikinis kutauodegis dygliatriušis statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rūšis atitikmenys: lot. Atherurus africanus angl. African brush tailed porcupine; West African brush tailed porcupine vok. afrikanischer Quastenstachler;… …   Žinduolių pavadinimų žodynas

  • West African brush-tailed porcupine — afrikinis kutauodegis dygliatriušis statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rūšis atitikmenys: lot. Atherurus africanus angl. African brush tailed porcupine; West African brush tailed porcupine vok. afrikanischer Quastenstachler;… …   Žinduolių pavadinimų žodynas

  • Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine — indokininis kutauodegis dygliatriušis statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rūšis atitikmenys: lot. Atherurus macrourus angl. Asiatic brush tailed porcupine; Malayan brush tailed porcupine vok. Langschwanzquastenstachler;… …   Žinduolių pavadinimų žodynas

  • Malayan brush-tailed porcupine — indokininis kutauodegis dygliatriušis statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rūšis atitikmenys: lot. Atherurus macrourus angl. Asiatic brush tailed porcupine; Malayan brush tailed porcupine vok. Langschwanzquastenstachler;… …   Žinduolių pavadinimų žodynas

  • brush-tail porcupine — noun porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail • Syn: ↑brush tailed porcupine • Hypernyms: ↑Old World porcupine • Member Holonyms: ↑Atherurus, ↑genus Atherurus * * * noun se …   Useful english dictionary

  • Brush-tailed — may refer to:* African Brush tailed Porcupine, species of rat like Old World porcupine * Brush tailed Phascogale, rat sized, arboreal carnivorous marsupial of the order Dasyurid * Brush tailed porcupine, group of Old World porcupines in the genus …   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

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