Porpentine vs Porcupine - What's the difference?
porpentine | porcupine |
(archaic) porcupine
* {{quote-book
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, title=(Hamlet)
, section=Act 1, Scene V
, passage=“GHOST: I could a tale unfold whose lightest word / Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined locks to part / And each particular hair to stand on end, / Like quills upon the fretful porpentine }}
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter XI
, passage=Odd that he [Hamlet's ghost] should have said porpentine when he meant porcupine. Slip of the tongue, no doubt, as so often happens with ghosts.}}
Any of several rodents of either of the taxonomic families Hystricidae (Old World porcupines) or Erethizontidae (New World porcupines), noted for their sharp spines or quills, which are raised when the animal is attacked or surprised.
* 1981 , Adolph Murie, The Grizzlies of Mount McKinley ,
* 2010 , Richard Potts, Early Hominid Activities at Olduvai ,
* 2011 , John P. Rafferty, Rats, Bats, and Xenarthrans ,
Porcupine is a related term of porpentine.
As nouns the difference between porpentine and porcupine
is that porpentine is porcupine while porcupine is any of several rodents of either of the taxonomic families Hystricidae (Old World porcupines) or Erethizontidae (New World porcupines), noted for their sharp spines or quills, which are raised when the animal is attacked or surprised.porpentine
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(en noun)porcupine
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(wikipedia porcupine)Noun
(en noun)page 218,
- I have no evidence of grizzlies killing porcupines' or vice versa. However, occasionally there is contact and sometimes a grizzly is injured or a ' porcupine killed, but the latter is rare.
page 81,
- In particular, porcupines , hyenas, and leopards are known in Africa to transport bones to particular places.
page 113,
- Old World porcupines' (Hystricidae) have quills embedded in clusters, whereas in New World '''porcupines''' (Erethizontidae) single quills are interspersed with bristles, underfur, and hair. No ' porcupine can throw its quills, but they detach easily and will remain embedded in an attacker.