Porcupine (disambiguation)
A porcupine is a mammal best known for its coat of sharp spines, or quills, that provides a defense from predators.
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Porcupine may also refer to:
Biology
- Porcupine caribou, a subspecies of the caribou also called Grant's caribou
- Porcupine flower, a plant from India
- Porcupinefish, also commonly called blowfish
- Porcupine, a protein encoded by the PORCN gene
Places
- Porcupine Mountains, Michigan
Bodies of water
- Porcupine River, a river with its source in the Yukon that flows through Alaska
- Porcupine River (British Columbia), a tributary of the Stikine River in British Columbia
- Porcupine Creek, also known historically as the Porcupine River, a tributary of the Skagway River in Alaska
- Porcupine Bank is an area of the Irish shelf approximately 200 miles west of Ireland
- Porcupine Seabight, a deep-water basin in the Porcupine Bank
- Porcupine Abyssal Plain, an abyssal plain adjacent to the Irish continental margin
Towns
Australia
- Porcupine, Queensland, a locality in the Shire of Flinders
Canada
- Porcupine, Ontario, a neighbourhood of Timmins
- Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan
United States of America
Other uses
- Porcupine (album), by Echo & the Bunnymen
- Porcupine (Cheyenne), a chief and medicine man
- Porcupine (comics), a fictional Marvel Comics character
- The Porcupine, a 1992 novel by Julian Barnes
- HMS Porcupine
- USS Porcupine (IX-126)
- Porcupine Freedom Festival
- Porcupine Gold Rush
- A mascot of the Libertarian Party of the United States
- A nickname given to Larry Fine of The Three Stooges
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