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A porcupine is an animal whose back and sides are covered with long, stiff, sharp hairs called quills. When it is scared, the quills stand up, and they can stick in another animal’s skin. It is not a hedgehog: a hedgehog is smaller, with short spines, and you may see one in a garden; a porcupine is larger and lives wild in other parts of the world. The English name is an old picture, not a scientific label: from French and Latin it means “spine pig” — a pig with spines. Cartoons often draw the quills like arrows all over the face; real porcupines are less neat than that.
豪豬（不是刺蝟；刺蝟是 hedgehog）
組成From Middle English porke despyne, from Old French porc-espin: Latin porcus, “pig,” plus a word for spine, so “spine pig.” Spanish and Italian names for the animal are built the same way.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
porcupinenoun/ˈpɔː(ɹ)kjʊˌpaɪn/
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Any of several rodents of either of the taxonomic families Hystricidae (Old World porcupines) or Erethizontidae (New World porcupines), both from the infraorder Hystricognathi, noted for their sharp spines or quills, which are raised when the animal is attacked or surprised.
- 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.
- In particular, porcupines, hyenas, and leopards are known in Africa to transport bones to particular places.
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datedAn echidna.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。