Meaning of cawquaw | Babel Free

Definitions

A Canadian porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum).

dated, no-plural, possibly, rare

Examples

“The Cawquaw or Urson of North America also inhabits trees. It has not, however, a prehensile tail, that member being merely used as a weapon of offence, the short, sharp quills witb which it is armed sticking in the wounds […]”

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