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Definition of Long-tailed porcupine

1. Noun. Porcupine of Borneo and Sumatra having short spines and a long tail.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Long-tailed Porcupine

Literary usage of Long-tailed porcupine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"... long-tailed porcupine. Nasal part of skull moderate; upper molars with one internal and three or four external folds, the latter soon separated as ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1827)
"Rice-tailed Porcupine and long-tailed porcupine, Pen. Iridescent Porcupine, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. n. Icon. Seba, 1. c. pl. 52. Shaw, I. c. 124. Pen. ..."

3. Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago by Reinhold Rost (1887)
"Besides this the long-tailed porcupine is well enough known; it has even been seen in Europe several times, nevertheless we believe it to be still possible ..."

4. A Natural History of the Mammalia by George Robert Waterhouse (1848)
"All we learn respecting the animal from this, or, I believe, from any other source, is, that it is a long-tailed Porcupine, and that the upper parts of its ..."

5. The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal of Satire edited by Arthur William A'Beckett (1867)
"In the meanwhile, a large staff has been sent into the nterior of Australia, in search of the long-tailed porcupine, which is to >e found in herds in that ..."

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