Porcupine (disambiguation)
A porcupine is a mammal best known for its coat of sharp spines, or quills, that provides a defense from predators.
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
Music
- Porcupine (album) by Echo & the Bunnymen
People
- Porcupine (Cheyenne), apostle of the Ghost Dance who brought it to the Cheyenne
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
Parks
Towns
- Porcupine, North Dakota
- Porcupine, Ontario, a neighbourhood of Timmins
- Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan
- Porcupine, South Dakota
- Porcupine, Wisconsin
Other
- Porcupine (political logo), sometimes used as an animal mascot of the Libertarian Party of the United States, akin to the Republican elephant and Democrat donkey
- HMS Porcupine
- Porcupine (comics), a fictional Marvel Comics character
- Porcupine Gold Rush
- USS Porcupine (IX-126)
- Porcupine Freedom Festival or Porcfest for short, is an annual event of the Free State Project (FSP) in New Hampshire.
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