Synonyms:
porcupine, hedgehog
Meaning: relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur
Usage examples
In the largest teepee sat a young mother wrapping red porcupine quills about the long fringes of a buckskin cushion.
As on the foregoing excursion, you leave the Valley by the Yosemite Falls trail and follow it to the Tioga wagon-road, a short distance east of Porcupine Flat.
To Eunice he brought little offerings of bark and feathers; taught her to make moccasins of skin, belts of shells, or pouches gay with porcupine quills and colored grass.
Only Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel and Chatterer the Red Squirrel and Prickly Porky the Porcupine, who were sitting in trees, kept their places. You see they felt quite safe.