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porcupine

/pawr-kyuh-pahyn/US // ˈpɔr kyəˌpaɪn //UK // (ˈpɔːkjʊˌpaɪn) //

豪猪,刺猬,毛刺,猪笼草

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several rodents covered with stiff, sharp, erectile spines or quills, as Erethizon dorsatum of North America.

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Examples

  • After Red Bench, it became a skeleton woods, the trees charred but standing, their bare, blackened trunks rising like porcupine quills across the land.

  • Titmice — and one chickadee — have been caught on video tugging hair from dogs, cats, humans, raccoons and even a porcupine.

  • Soon after, Pieciul spotted what he first thought was a “cute porcupine” 50 feet away.

  • The ATC recommends using bear canisters, which also protect supplies from mice, porcupines, raccoons, skunks, and other nocturnal visitors.

  • These forces can be represented as one arrow or two arrows, or a whole slew of arrows bristling from the airplane, porcupine fashion.

  • He is the author of Broken Glass, Memoirs of a Porcupine, and African Psycho, among others.

  • My heart was racing, my hands felt like they were covered with porcupine quills.

  • One day, the porcupine has had enough, and turns to writing a memoir.

  • Mabanckou pairs the porcupine with a Congolese boy, who attacks and kills neighbors and strangers with little provocation.

  • The Kutchin make pretty pipe-stems out of goose-quills wound about with porcupine-quills.

  • Mr. Van Britt blew his cheeks out until the stubby, cropped mustache bristled like porcupine quills.

  • From the Jim Crow a drowsy porcupine trundled away bristling.

  • The porcupine, meanwhile, had found something that interested him.

  • Only the porcupine was quite undaunted by the strange sounds.