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porcupine


noun an echidna.
Contributor's comments: Badger is used on Flinders Island to refer to wombats, also echidnas are porcupines.

Contributor's comments: Aboriginal people here in the top end use the same name.

Contributor's comments: Used in the Kimberley to refer to echidna.