HyperDic: brush-tailed_porcupine

English > 1 sense of the expression brush-tailed porcupine:
NOUNanimalbrush-tailed porcupine, brush-tail porcupineporcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail
English > brush-tailed porcupine: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningporcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail.
Synonymbrush-tail porcupine
Member ofAtherurus, genus AtherurusA genus of Hystricidae
BroaderOld World porcupineterrestrial / terrestrial porcupine

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