"Old World porcupine" meaning in English

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          "word": "New World porcupine"
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          "ref": "2008, Barbara A. Holzman, Tropical Forest Biomes, page 115:",
          "text": "Rodents are represented by four families: squirrels, Old World porcupines, mice and rats, and bamboo rats.",
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          "ref": "2010, Peter S. Ungar, Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution, and Diversity, page 211:",
          "text": "Old World porcupines inhabit much of Africa, southern Europe, and Asia. Old World porcupines are also known to gnaw on bones (Bruno and Riccardi 1995; Nowak 1999; Smithers, Skinner, and Chimimba 2005; Barhelmess 2006; Arslan 2008).",
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          "ref": "2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Mammalogy, page 227:",
          "text": "Erethizon characteristically takes shelter in rock piles, beneath overhanging rocks, or in hollow logs but (as other New World porcupines) does not dig burrows as do Old World porcupines.",
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        "Any of the large, spiny-furred rodents of the family Hystricidae, native to the southern Eurasia and Africa."
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  "etymology_text": "From Old World + porcupine.",
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