Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling or related to a porcupine; hystricomorphic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the porcupines.
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- adjective Like or pertaining to
porcupines
Etymologies
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From Late Latin hystrix (genitive: hystricis), a kind of porcupine.
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(1730-6) -1755 OW hylobatine gibbon OW crotaline rattlesnake hystricine porcupine
sionnach commented on the word hystricine
pertaining to porcupine.
April 12, 2008