Noun

• S: (n) porcupine, hedgehog (relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) Old World porcupine (terrestrial porcupine)
• S: (n) brush-tailed porcupine, brush-tail porcupine (porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail)
• S: (n) long-tailed porcupine, Trichys lipura (porcupine of Borneo and Sumatra having short spines and a long tail)
• S: (n) New World porcupine (arboreal porcupine)
• S: (n) Canada porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum (porcupine of northeastern North America with barbed spines concealed in the coarse fur; often gnaws buildings for salt and grease)
• part meronym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) rodent, gnawer (relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)
• S: (n) placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
• S: (n) mammal, mammalian (any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk)
• S: (n) vertebrate, craniate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)
• S: (n) chordate (any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column)
• S: (n) animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
• S: (n) organism, being (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
• S: (n) living thing, animate thing (a living (or once living) entity)
• S: (n) whole, unit (an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity) "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit"
• S: (n) object, physical object (a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow) "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects"
• S: (n) physical entity (an entity that has physical existence)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• S: (n) hedgehog, Erinaceus europaeus, Erinaceus europeaeus (small nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines)