No, it's the name of another animal.
Porcupine
Porcupine
If you mean the word porcupine, the German word is Stachelschwein, which translates literally as "spiney pig" or "pig with spines"
Panda, pig, porcupine, Penguin, Parrot, Puma.
The French phrase for "spiny pig" is porc épineux, which tells me it is the origin of the English word "porcupine".
The word "porcupine" comes from "porc d'épine," which is Middle French for "thorny pork."The word porcupine comes from the Middle French word, porc d'épine. Which means 'spined pig'.Don't think any one person named it (or is credited with naming it) it's just one of those things that came about naturally.==========================================="Porcupine" is Latin for "quill pig." Porcupines, however, are large rodents. They are not related to pigs.
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in the pig mouth
Their spines
The Porcupine Mountains are located in the western-most part of the Upper Peninsula.
no its part of the rodent family
The Porcupine Mountain in the UP of Michigan are 2 billion years old and a part of one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world.