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- noun A
prehensile -tailed tree-dwellingporcupine found in Central and South America (genus Coendou)
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The Havre aquarium has just put on exhibition one of the most curious, and especially one of the rarest, of animals -- the prehensile tailed coendou (_Synetheres prehensilis_).
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