hystricine
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prettygoodwordhystricine (HIS-truh-seen) - adj., of, pertaining to, or resembling a porcupine.
Not sure when it was borrowed, but it was from not classical but Late Latin hystrīx, a particular species of porcupine. Note that as a taxonomic epithet, hystrix means spiny.
---L.
Not sure when it was borrowed, but it was from not classical but Late Latin hystrīx, a particular species of porcupine. Note that as a taxonomic epithet, hystrix means spiny.
---L.
