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Porcupine meaning
Any of several rodents of either of the taxonomic families Hystricidae (Old World porcupines) or Erethizontidae (New World porcupines), both from the infraorder Hystricognathi, noted for their sharp spines or quills, which are raised when the animal is attacked or surprised.
Using Porcupine
- The main meaning on this page is: Any of several rodents of either of the taxonomic families Hystricidae (Old World porcupines) or Erethizontidae (New World porcupines), both from the infraorder Hystricognathi, noted for their sharp spines or quills, which are raised when the animal is attacked or surprised.
- Useful related words include: hedgehog, rodent, gnawer, gnawing animal.
- In the example corpus, porcupine often appears in combinations such as: the porcupine, porcupine warriors, porcupine caribou.
Context around Porcupine
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 12 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Porcupine
- In this selection, "porcupine" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, citation, bristling, cute, warriors, caribou and quills stand out and add context to how "porcupine" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bristling porcupine armed to and a porcupine wanders out. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "porcupine" sits close to words such as abacus, abner and acorns, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with porcupine
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That's why the Lake Superior Zoo in Duluth always substitutes a porcupine. (13 words)
The juvenille porcupine was rescued from a stormwater drain where he was found alone. (14 words)
Friday’s game against the Porcupine Quills would prove to be the team’s toughest. (15 words)
Their territory spans a huge swath of northeastern Alaska and northwestern Canada, and their health and culture depends on the Porcupine caribou herd—a group of animals 200,000 strong that calve on the area of the coastal plain slated for drilling. (42 words)
A native of the Albany area of upstate New York, Paley began playing music even before his teen years, at a 7-year-old writing “The Porcupine Song,” which was recorded by children’s music performer Tom Glazer. (38 words)
Lakota women would harvest the quills for quillwork by throwing a blanket over a porcupine and retrieving the quills it left stuck in the blanket. citation Porcupine quills have recently inspired a new type of hypodermic needle. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Lakota women would harvest the quills for quillwork by throwing a blanket over a porcupine and retrieving the quills it left stuck in the blanket. citation Porcupine quills have recently inspired a new type of hypodermic needle.
And fourth, the West could turn Ukraine into a bristling porcupine, armed to the hilt with massive Western training and other support, so that it would be all but impossible for Russia to swallow.
Friday’s game against the Porcupine Quills would prove to be the team’s toughest.
Porcupine is listed in the Red Book of Kazakhstan as a rare and endangered species.
There were horses out in the pastures, nearly impossible to get in focus with all the heat waves rising from the ground but with the lovely piebald background of the Porcupine Hills behind them, I shot anyway.
The video is somewhat routine as a porcupine climbs into a tree on a January night.
With declines in the Western Arctic and other herds, that leaves the Porcupine Caribou Herd as potentially the largest in North America.
A native of the Albany area of upstate New York, Paley began playing music even before his teen years, at a 7-year-old writing “The Porcupine Song,” which was recorded by children’s music performer Tom Glazer.
Annan has been demoted to the bench for the Porcupine Warriors last four league games including the famous Super Clash 2-1 victory against bitterest rivals Hearts of Oak in Accra.
A porcupine wanders out of the forest in Acadia National Park on a July afternoon.
But the Porcupine Warriors are proposing a three-month salary payoff which has been rejected.
From the Porcupine Mountains to Lime Island and Harrisville to Tawas and Van Buren state parks, record or near-record Great Lakes water levels have produced powerful impacts forcing the closure of numerous facilities.
In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, caribou from the Porcupine Caribou Herd migrate onto the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska.
That's why the Lake Superior Zoo in Duluth always substitutes a porcupine.
The cute porcupine-like creature belongs to the monotreme family, the egg-laying mammals found ambling around only in Australia and New Guinea.
Their territory spans a huge swath of northeastern Alaska and northwestern Canada, and their health and culture depends on the Porcupine caribou herd—a group of animals 200,000 strong that calve on the area of the coastal plain slated for drilling.
The juvenille porcupine was rescued from a stormwater drain where he was found alone.
The Phobians failed to make their recent surge in form count as the Porcupine Warriors looked compact and tactically superior but the overall quality was bog-standard.
The Stade du Phosphate outfit have reportedly submitted a $50,000 offer to the Porcupine Warriors in an attempt to turn their head.
They are even yet to score against the Porcupine Warriors in 2 league meetings and will be eager to break this jinx on Sunday.
Common combinations with porcupine
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: