PORCUPINES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does porcupines mean? 

• PORCUPINES (noun)
  The noun PORCUPINES has 1 sense:

1. meat patties rolled in rice and simmered in a tomato sauce

  Familiarity information: PORCUPINES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORCUPINES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Meat patties rolled in rice and simmered in a tomato sauce

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

porcupine ball; porcupines

Hypernyms ("porcupines" is a kind of...):

meatball (ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth)

 Context examples 

He had waited too often and futilely in the past for porcupines to unroll, to waste any more time.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

We saw many small animals, such as porcupines, a scaly ant-eater, and a wild pig, piebald in color and with long curved tusks.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)