A hedgehog. (In Old English also a porcupine.)
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释义 | the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Hystricomorpha (porcupine or guinea-pig) > [noun] > family Hystricidae (porcupine) (12) ilc897 A hedgehog. (In Old English also a porcupine.) urchinc1400 transferred. Applied to the porcupine. Obsolete. porcupine?a1425 Any of various large herbivorous rodents having the body and tail covered with defensive erectile spines or quills, and belonging to the families H… brush-tail porcupine1885 (see quot. 1885). thorn-swine1889 a porcupine (Cent. Dict. 1891). porky1899 A porcupine. Subcategories:— parts of (6) |
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