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porcupines

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. meat patties rolled in rice and simmered in a tomato sauce [syn: porcupine ball ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of porcupine English)

Usage examples of porcupines.

I searched hard for porcupines, but if any were in the vicinity, they were keeping an ultra low profile.

But all porcupines are not alike, and this one was not within my reckoning.

He was certainly “the oldest inhabitant,” and after vain efforts to chew the leathery meat, we turned in disgust to bread and coffee, and Easton, at least, lost faith forever in my judgment of toothsome game, and formed a particular prejudice against porcupines which he never overcame.

Our teeth would make no impression upon it, and Easton remarked that “the rubber trust ought to hunt porcupines, for they are a lot tougher than rubber and just as pliable.

We can, I think, understand why porcupines have been provided, through the modification of their protective spines, with this special sound-producing instrument.