Definitions for porcupine

porcupine por·cu·pine

Spelling: [pawr-kyuh-pahyn]
IPA: /ˈpɔr kyəˌpaɪn/

Porcupine is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 337 anagrams from letters in porcupine (ceinoppru).

Definitions for porcupine

noun

  1. any of several rodents covered with stiff, sharp, erectile spines or quills, as Erethizon dorsatum of North America.

Origin of porcupine

1375-1425; late Middle English porcupyne, variant of porcapyne; replacing porke despyne Middle French porc d'espine thorny pig. See pork, spine<

Examples for porcupine

Not quite entirely had the porcupine unrolled when it discovered its enemy.

Mabanckou pairs the porcupine with a Congolese boy, who attacks and kills neighbors and strangers with little provocation.

The porcupine had at last decided that its enemy had gone away.

My heart was racing, my hands felt like they were covered with porcupine quills.

Just then the porcupine, the Chief of the animals, passed by the bear tree.

Remember this whenever you come in the way of the porcupine.

He is the author of Broken Glass, Memoirs of a porcupine, and African Psycho, among others.

The girl was the wilful daughter of a Basque rancher over on the porcupine.

It was when the porcupine was chief, that a council was called.

One day, the porcupine has had enough, and turns to writing a memoir.

Word Value for porcupine
Scrable

15

Words with friends

20

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