How many syllables in porcupine?

There are 3 syllables in the word porcupine.

Divide porcupine into syllables:

porcupine (noun):: relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur.; any of various relatively large slow-moving chiefly herbivorous rodents having sharp erectile spines mingled with the hair and constituting an old world terrestrial family (hystricidae) and a new world chiefly arboreal family (erethizontidae)

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