porcupette - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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.
baby porcupine
- German: Stachelschweinbaby n (Hystricidae), Stachelschweinjunges n (Hystricidae), Baumstachlerbaby n (Erethizontidae), Baumstachlerjunges n (Erethizontidae)