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- Hedgehog - n. - A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.
- Hedgehog - n. - The Canadian porcupine.
- Hedgehog - n. - A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called.
- Hedgehog - n. - A form of dredging machine.
- Erinaceous - a. - Of the Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog.
- Isabella moth - - A common American moth (Pyrrharctia isabella), of an isabella color. The larva, called woolly bear and hedgehog caterpillar, is densely covered with hairs, which are black at each end of the body, and red in the middle part.
- Tendrac - n. - Any one of several species of small insectivores of the family Centetidae, belonging to Ericulus, Echinope, and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec.
- Quill - n. - A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.