Old World porcupine
Noun
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Noun
Old World porcupine
- Any of the large, spiny-furred rodents of the family Hystricidae, native to the southern Eurasia and Africa.
- 2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Mammalogy, page 227 ↗,
- Erethizon characteristically takes shelter in rock piles, beneath overhanging rocks, or in hollow logs but (as other New World porcupines) does not dig burrows as do Old World porcupines.
- 2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Mammalogy, page 227 ↗,
- (any species of the family Hystricidae) hystricid
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