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  • noun Plural form of porcupine.

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  • noun meat patties rolled in rice and simmered in a tomato sauce

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Examples

  • We saw many small animals, such as porcupines, a scaly ant-eater, and a wild pig, piebald in color and with long curved tusks.

    The Lost World 1912

  • We saw many small animals, such as porcupines, a scaly ant-eater, and a wild pig, piebald in color and with long curved tusks.

    The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • The WMIK has become popular, and the Taliban reportedly refer to them as 'porcupines' due to their appearance and effect.

    Defense Industry Daily 2009

  • Let's not forget, too, that US advisers were in Georgia when it launched its full military might into its own breakaway province of South Ossetia. .and that neoconservative advisers to the administration and the McCain campaign have called for turning states along Russia's borders into US-armed "porcupines".

    whoar.co.nz 2008

  • Let's not forget, too, that US advisers were in Georgia when it launched its full military might into its own breakaway province of South Ossetia. .and that neoconservative advisers to the administration and the McCain campaign have called for turning states along Russia's borders into US-armed "porcupines".

    whoar.co.nz 2008

  • In a bid to divert water flow from left to right, specially constructed cement, stone and steel "porcupines" would be erected to "induce siltation."

    The Hindu - Front Page 2008

  • Let's not forget, too, that US advisers were in Georgia when it launched its full military might into its own breakaway province of South Ossetia. .and that neoconservative advisers to the administration and the McCain campaign have called for turning states along Russia's borders into US-armed "porcupines".

    whoar.co.nz 2008

  • Let's not forget, too, that US advisers were in Georgia when it launched its full military might into its own breakaway province of South Ossetia. .and that neoconservative advisers to the administration and the McCain campaign have called for turning states along Russia's borders into US-armed "porcupines".

    whoar.co.nz 2008

  • Let's not forget, too, that US advisers were in Georgia when it launched its full military might into its own breakaway province of South Ossetia. .and that neoconservative advisers to the administration and the McCain campaign have called for turning states along Russia's borders into US-armed "porcupines".

    whoar.co.nz 2008

  • Let's not forget, too, that US advisers were in Georgia when it launched its full military might into its own breakaway province of South Ossetia. .and that neoconservative advisers to the administration and the McCain campaign have called for turning states along Russia's borders into US-armed "porcupines".

    whoar.co.nz 2008

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