porcupine

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

an animal covered with long stiff parts like needles (called QUILLS), which it can raise to protect itself when it is attacked

Rate this entry

About this entry

This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

porcupineEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary porcupineEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

Nearby in the dictionary

Frequently asked questions

Where does this definition of porcupine come from?

This entry for porcupine is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.

Is porcupine a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, porcupine is tagged as noun.

Does porcupine appear elsewhere on Lughet?

Yes — porcupine appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.

What is Lughet?

Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.

porcupine