Coendou

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A prehensile-tailed tree-dwelling porcupine, of genus Coendou, found in Central and South America.

Synonyms

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brazilian porcupineprehensile tailed porcupineprehensile-tailed porcupine

Etymology

From New Latin, from Old Tupi kûandu.

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