| 单词 | porcupine |
| 释义 | porcupine (once / 2880 pages) n WORD FAMILY porcupine: porcupines USAGE EXAMPLESThe coastal plain is a vital calving ground for the Porcupine caribou herd and a summer stopover for migratory birds. Seattle Times(Dec 11, 2016) Every summer, libertarians gather for a weeklong event called the Porcupine Freedom Festival, held on a big campground in New Hampshire’s northern woods. Slate(Nov 30, 2016) Would you rather be trapped in an elevator with an excessively amorous porcupine or have a Trump-Clinton rematch in four years? Washington Post(Nov 23, 2016) n relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur Syn|Hypo|Hyper hedgehog Old World porcupine terrestrial porcupine New World porcupinearboreal porcupine brush-tail porcupine, brush-tailed porcupineporcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail Trichys lipura, long-tailed porcupineporcupine of Borneo and Sumatra having short spines and a long tail Canada porcupine, Erethizon dorsatumporcupine of northeastern North America with barbed spines concealed in the coarse fur; often gnaws buildings for salt and grease gnawer, rodent relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing |
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