porcupette

From porcupine +‎ -ette.

porcupette (plural porcupettes)

1. A baby porcupine.
   • 2001, Warner Shedd, Owls Aren't Wise & Bats Aren't Blind: A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife:

     To my horror, I saw that she had carefully retrieved a very live and healthy porcupette!

   • 2013, Jeffrey Rouche, Porcupines in the Wild, page 16:

     A mother porcupine can give birth to between one and four porcupettes at one time.