porcupette

English

Etymology

porcupine +‎ -ette

Noun

porcupette (plural porcupettes)

A baby porcupine.
- 2001, Warner Shedd, Owls Aren't Wise & Bats Aren't Blind: A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife:
  To my horror, I saw that she had carefully retrieved a very live and healthy porcupette!
- 2013, Jeffrey Rouche, Porcupines in the Wild, page 16:
  A mother porcupine can give birth to between one and four porcupettes at one time.

Translations

baby porcupine

German: Stachelschweinbaby n (Hystricidae), Stachelschweinjunges n (Hystricidae), Baumstachlerbaby n (Erethizontidae), Baumstachlerjunges n (Erethizontidae)

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