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Canada porcupine

noun

Porcupine of northeastern North America with barbed spines concealed in the coarse fur; often gnaws buildings for salt and grease. Synonym: Erethizon dorsatum.

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... West, connecting links between civilization and savagery; some of them indeed were mere white Indians, imbued with the ideas and morals of the wigwam, wearing hunting-shirts of smoked deer-skin embroidered with quills of the Canada porcupine, painting their faces black and red, tying eagle feathers in their long hair, or plastering it on their temples with a compound of vermilion and glue. They were excellent woodsmen, skilful hunters, and perhaps the best ...

— Montcalm and Wolfe • Francis Parkman

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Words linked to "Canada porcupine" : New World porcupine, Erethizon, Erethizon dorsatum, genus Erethizon