Color Names

Porcupine Needles

Dusty, muted quills, not sharp enough to puncture, just a soft grey-brown.

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Porcupine Needles is a warm grey, close to mauve.

It can be described as warm, muted, greyish and dusty.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Porcupine Needles

Porcupine

Porcupines are large rodents with coats of sharp spines, or quills, that protect them against predators. The term covers two families of animals, the Old World porcupines in the family Hystricidae, and the New World porcupines in the family Erethizontidae. Both families display superficially similar coats of rigid or semirigid quills, which are modified hairs composed of keratin, and belong to the infraorder Hystricognathi within the diverse order Rodentia. The two groups are distinct and are not closely related to each other within the Hystricognathi. The largest species of porcupine is the third-largest living rodent in the world, after the capybara and beaver.

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porcupine

Noun

  1. Any of several rodents of either of the taxonomic families Hystricidae (Old World porcupines) or Erethizontidae (New World porcupines), both from the infraorder Hystricognathi, noted for their sharp spines or quills, which are raised when the animal is attacked or surprised.
  2. An echidna.
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needles

Noun

  1. plural of needle

Verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of needle
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