Donald Trump wins Florida to take step closer to the White House. Donald Trump was won the key election battleground of Florida by a decisive margin of more than 100,000 votes. The result comes as a huge boost for the Republican candidate, whose hopes of winning the election would have effectively been over if he failed to capture the southern state, which carries 29 crucial electoral college votes.
porcupine meaning, definition, what is porcupine: an animal with a covering of long, sharp quills (= stiff hairs like needles) on its back. Learn more.
The word porcupine comes from the middle or old French word porcespin, which means quill pig. Its roots derive from the Latin words porcus or pig and spina meaning thorns. Other colloquial names for the animal include quill pig. It is also referred to as the Canadian porcupine or common porcupine.