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noun
any of several rodents covered with stiff, sharp, erectile spines or quills, as Erethizon dorsatum of North America.
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porcupine
c.1400, porke despyne, from O.Fr. porc-espin (c.1220), lit. "spiny pig," from L. porcus "hog" + spina "thorn, spine." The word had many forms in M.E. and early Mod.E., including portepyn, porkpen, porkenpick, porpoynt, and Shakespeare's porpentine (in "Hamlet").
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