DCHP-3

Indian porcupine

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum.

Quotations

1852
The Indian porcupine is a small animal, not a very great deal larger than the common British hedgehog; the quills, however, are longer and stronger, and varied with alternate clouded marks of pure white and dark brownish grey; they are minutely barbed, so that if one enters the flesh it is with difficulty extracted. . . .