porcupine به انگلیسی

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From Longman Dictionary

por‧cu‧pine /ˈpɔːkjəpaɪn $ ˈpɔːr-/ noun [countable]

an animal with long sharp parts growing all over its back and sides

Example

Where he had touched her her scalp was prickling like a porcupine

Or the do-probe-me inaccessibility of a porcupine

Here the spikes can become enormous quills – those of the great crested porcupine are as long as 20 inches

Puffers Closely related to the porcupine fish are the puffers

But this porcupine had no scratch on its belly; it had been attacked at the front end instead