porcupette

English

Etymology

porcupine +‎ -ette

Noun

porcupette (plural porcupettes)

1. 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)