porcupine

[pawr-kyuh-pahyn] / ˈpɔr kyəˌpaɪn /

NOUN

shrew

Synonyms

STRONG

backbiter battle-ax bitch carper detractor dragon fire-eater fishwife fury harpy harridan hellion muckraker nag ogress scold she-devil spitfire termagant tigress virago vixen

WEAK

calumniator hell cat reviler she-wolf vituperator

Example Sentences

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Scott: I think it might have been a Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Rick: The hotel pretty much just got the porcupine and left.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

A bloodied but determined honey badger pursues a Cape porcupine in Botswana.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2025

Today, there are only three survivors: the nine-banded armadillo, the Virginia opossum and the North American porcupine.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2024

It had been across the parking lot from a Subway, and ever since, I couldn’t smell baking Subway bread without feeling trapped and claustrophobic from the porcupine costume I was forced to wear.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

porcupine

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