hedgehog

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When the hedgehog is active again and showing signs of recovery, they can be fed with cat food, scrambled eggs or scraps of chicken.

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  1. noun Any of several small insectivorous mammals of the family Erinaceidae of Europe, Africa, and Asia, having the back covered with dense erectile spines and characteristically rolling into a ball for protection.
  2. noun Any of several spiny animals, such as the porcupine, that are similar to the hedgehog.
  3. noun A well fortified military position.
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  • It was a neat and noiseless kind of sleep; the posture might be described as the half-hedgehog, and offered neither mouth nor stomach as a target for missiles. —  Gaudy Night Dorothy L Sayers -3rd Lord Peter WImsey/Harriet Vane book
  • When the hedgehog is active again and showing signs of recovery, they can be fed with cat food, scrambled eggs or scraps of chicken. —  News round-up
  • "Friedman is what Isaiah Berlin called a hedgehog - he knows one big thing (or at least one big thing per book) and he devotes 412 pages to cramming pretty much all of the world, ranging from his younger daughter's school projects to the Chinese Communist party, into that over-arching paradigm." —  Noteworthy
  • When it came to powers, the only thing Sonic has in common with the hedgehog is his tendency fight the enemy by rolling himself in to a ball. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Sonic the hedgehog is an extremely popular character developed by team Sonic for Sega. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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  1. from Middle English heggehogge; from hedge + hog.
 

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/ˈhɛdʒhɑg/
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