"spine pig" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From spine + pig, literal translation of porcupine.",
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          "ref": "1884, James Hogg, Florence Marryat, London society",
          "text": "Hares are fairly common, so also is the fretful porcupine, who, if he finds his way into your kitchen-garden, will play havoc with your pet vegetables. He is accounted delicate eating, this 'spine pig,' as the natives call him; [...]",
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        {
          "ref": "1953, Randall Jarrell, Poetry and the age",
          "text": "\"Spine-swine (the edgehog misnamed hedgehog),\" echidna, echinoderm, rhino, the spine pig or porcupine — \"everything is battle-dressed\"; [...]",
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          "ref": "2006, Wayne Clifford, The Book of Were",
          "text": "Spine pig, spine pig, say me true, how your flesh befits a you so articulate in joint as to sharpen to your point. I've kept dogs ten thousand days; dodge my fears and play my joys out there in the forest's maze, [...]",
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  "word": "spine pig"
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          "ref": "1884, James Hogg, Florence Marryat, London society",
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