Home › Words › P › porcupetteporcupetteporcupette · noun — A baby porcupine.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom porcupine + -ette.nounA baby porcupine.e.g.“To my horror, I saw that she had carefully retrieved a very live and healthy porcupette!” — 2001, Warner Shedd, Owls Aren't Wise & Bats Aren't Blind: A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.warthoglet 66% match — A baby warthog. vs porcupette →hoglet 65% match — A baby hedgehog. vs porcupette →cawquaw 62% match — A Canadian porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum). vs porcupette →erethizontoid 59% match — Any New World porcupine of the superfamily Erethizontoidea vs porcupette →porket 59% match — 1838, William Howitt, The Rural Life of England vs porcupette →porkling 58% match vs porcupette →peachick 57% match — A baby peafowl. vs porcupette →erethizontid 56% match — Any of the New World porcupines comprising the family Erethizontidae. vs porcupette →