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US
/ˈhɛdʒˌhɑɡ/
]
[ UK /hˈɛdʒhɒɡ/ ]
[ UK /hˈɛdʒhɒɡ/ ]
NOUN
- small nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines
- relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur
How To Use hedgehog In A Sentence
- I don't think they play at all fairly," Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, "and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak and they don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them -- and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground -- and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- the hedgehog is a primitive and generalized mammal
- And hedgehogs released into areas of excellent habitat hightailed it out of there if they smelt badger. Times, Sunday Times
- The hedgehog rolled up into a spiky ball.
- The hedgehog caper had somehow affected his pattern of sleep and he was wide awake at six, with nowhere to go.
- Civilizations run by hedgehogs tend to have a fetish for uniformity; those run by foxes are more tolerant of diversity.
- A hedgehog often contracts its body into a ball.
- They also sometimes roost in the burrows of other mammals such as hedgehogs, porcupines, and aardvarks.
- Molluscs, barnacles, mussels, oysters, tortoises, hedgehogs, armadillos, porcupines, rhinos all grow their own.
- There's a little diddy baby hedgehog (about the size of my fist) in The Coven Grounds at the moment.