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hedgehog

[ US /ˈhɛdʒˌhɑɡ/ ]
[ UK /hˈɛd‍ʒhɒɡ/ ]
NOUN
  1. small nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines
  2. 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.
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