单词 | brush-tail porcupine |
释义 | > as lemmasbrush-tail porcupine brush-tail porcupine n. (also brush-tailed porcupine) (see quot. 1885). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Hystricomorpha (porcupine or guinea-pig) > [noun] > family Hystricidae (porcupine) ilc897 urchinc1400 porcupine?a1425 brush-tail porcupine1885 thorn-swine1889 porky1899 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 518/2 The second genus of Old-World porcupines is Atherura, the Brush-tailed Porcupines,..with long tails tipped with bundles of peculiar flattened spines. 1953 G. Durrell Overloaded Ark iv. 84 A Brush-tailed Porcupine..about the size of a cat... He was mostly black in colour. 1962 Times 20 Dec. 9/7 The Borneo Brushtail Porcupine. < as lemmas |
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