Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

new world porcupine

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.88 in modern English

Syllables: new -world -por-cu-pine
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the large, arboreal, spiny-furred rodents of the family Erethizontidae, native to forests and wooded regions of North America and northern South America.

Example Sentences

"New World porcupines, found in both North and South America, are arboreal and climb trees with agility, aided in some species by a prehensile tail."
"The bizarre structure, shared with the New World porcupines, so impressed Stuart Landry that he argued for a common origin for the New World and Old World hystricomorphs long before the mainstream of biologists felt ready to do so (Pocock 1922; Dathe 1937; Landry 1957"
"New World porcupines have some arboreal adaptations that are lacking in their more terrestrial Old World counterparts."

Inflected Forms

New World porcupines (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

Old World porcupine

Synonyms

erethizontid

Questions

What does new world porcupine mean?: Any of the large, arboreal, spiny-furred rodents of the family Erethizontidae, native to forests and wooded regions of North America and northern South America.

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