Porcupine is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PORCUPINE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a large spiny rodent of various kinds, also PORPENTINE
• a large rodent with defensive spines or quills on the body and tail.
• animal covered with long pointed quills
• Any Old Word rodent of the genus Hystrix, having the back covered with long, sharp, erectile spines or quills, sometimes a foot long. The common species of Europe and Asia (Hystrix cristata) is the best known.
• Any species of Erethizon and related genera, native of America. They are related to the true porcupines, but have shorter spines, and are arboreal in their habits. The Canada porcupine (Erethizon dorsatus) is a well known species.
• relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• any of various relatively large slow-moving chiefly herbivorous rodents having sharp erectile spines mingled with the hair and constituting an Old World terrestrial family (Hystricidae) and a New World chiefly arboreal family (Erethizontidae)

Words related to PORCUPINE

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Words that contain PORCUPINE

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How to use PORCUPINE in a sentence

• Gray Wolf and the porcupine had both added to the defeat of the lynx on the sand-bar.
• The outfit crossed the Milk River, skirted Pakoghkee Lake, and swung westward in the direction of the Porcupine Hills.
• In 1796, in the hottest of the French and English fight, the well-known Porcupine opened a shop in Philadelphia.
• When he got to the north point of the Porcupine Mountains, there he made some more mud images of people, and blew breath upon them, and they became people.
• As we were looking at them Jack drew a pistol from his belt, and discharged it directly into the head of the porcupine, which fell dead.
• Fritz, decorated with his beautiful belt of skin, Jack in his porcupine helmet.
• I armed my dogs with their porcupine coats of mail and collars, and left them below to take care of our animals.
• It fits closely to the leg, the tail being worn upwards, and the neck highly ornamented with fringe and porcupine quills, drags on the ground behind the heels.
• From the centre of this pole the porcupine was suspended by a string, so that it hung low and near enough to the fire to roast nicely, while it was twirled around on the string.
• I receive daily bitter proofs of it from people who never saw me, nor know any thing of me but through Porcupine and Fenno.
• Porcupine gave me a principal share in it, as I am told, for I never read his papers.
• When a dog or any other foe comes to close quarters, the porcupine wheels round and rapidly charges back.
• The porcupine all the world over is known to be good eating, and is in many countries esteemed a delicacy.
• She may eat no fresh meat or fish except the flesh of the porcupine.
• At three and one-half miles above Porcupine River, we reached some high timber on the north, and camped just above an old channel of the river, which is now dry.
• The wood of the tree is known by the name of porcupine wood.
• When on fighting expeditions, they use shields, made of leather, which are covered towards the centre with the quills of the porcupine.
• After that Uncle Wiggily and the porcupine traveled on some more, and, as it got to be very warm they thought they would lie down in a shady place and take a little sleep.
• II CUFFY BEAR FINDS A PORCUPINE For a few minutes Cuffy stood in the doorway and blinked and blinked.
• But now Cuffy decided that he would show his father that he too was clever enough to kill a porcupine.

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