New World porcupine
Noun
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Noun
New World porcupine
- Any of the large, arboreal, spiny-furred rodents of the family Erethizontidae, native to forests and wooded regions of North America and northern South America.
- 2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Mammalogy, page 227 ↗,
- New World porcupines have some arboreal adaptations that are lacking in their more terrestrial Old World counterparts.
- 2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Mammalogy, page 227 ↗,
- (any species of family Erethizontidae) erethizontid
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