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porcupines
Variant of porcupine
noun pl. porcupines or porcupine
any of a terrestrial Old World family (Hystricidae) or an arboreal New World family (Erethizontidae) of rodents, having coarse hair mixed with long, stiff, sharp spines that can be erected
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