Hedgehog
noun
A small animal covered with stiff, sharp, protective spines.
A hedgehog curled itself up into a ball when danger approached
Often appears as...
- pet hedgehog
- baby hedgehog
noun
A type of cocktail made with crème de menthe and brandy.
He ordered a hedgehog to celebrate the news
Often appears as...
- order a hedgehog
- make a hedgehog
Usage tips
Idiomatic
noun
A type of defensive formation in the game of chess.
I used the hedgehog formation to protect my king
Often appears as...
- hedgehog formation
- hedgehog in chess
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A spiky hairstyle where the hair is gelled into large spikes pointing out.
He styled his hair into a hedgehog for the punk-themed party
Often appears as...
- hedgehog hairstyle
- style a hedgehog
Usage tips
Colloquial, Edgy
Modern
noun
A small animal covered with stiff, sharp, protective spines.
A hedgehog curled itself up into a ball when danger approached
Often appears as...
- pet hedgehog
- baby hedgehog
noun
A type of cocktail made with crème de menthe and brandy.
He ordered a hedgehog to celebrate the news
Often appears as...
- order a hedgehog
- make a hedgehog
Usage tips
Idiomatic
noun
A type of defensive formation in the game of chess.
I used the hedgehog formation to protect my king
Often appears as...
- hedgehog formation
- hedgehog in chess
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A spiky hairstyle where the hair is gelled into large spikes pointing out.
He styled his hair into a hedgehog for the punk-themed party
Often appears as...
- hedgehog hairstyle
- style a hedgehog
Usage tips
Colloquial, Edgy
Modern
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Visualize a small mammal, with a round body and protective spines, when you see 'hedgehog'.
Children's books often depict a friendly hedgehog with a smile.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a Porcupine
Remember, a hedgehog is smaller than a porcupine and has different types of spines.
She corrected her friend's mistake, explaining that Sonic is a hedgehog, not a porcupine.
Pro Tip 3/3Animal Behavior
Hedgehogs roll into balls for protection, a unique behavior that helps identify them.
The story described the hedgehog's escape by rolling into a spiky ball.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Visualize a small mammal, with a round body and protective spines, when you see 'hedgehog'.
Children's books often depict a friendly hedgehog with a smile.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a Porcupine
Remember, a hedgehog is smaller than a porcupine and has different types of spines.
She corrected her friend's mistake, explaining that Sonic is a hedgehog, not a porcupine.
Pro Tip 3/3Animal Behavior
Hedgehogs roll into balls for protection, a unique behavior that helps identify them.
The story described the hedgehog's escape by rolling into a spiky ball.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Visualize a small mammal, with a round body and protective spines, when you see 'hedgehog'.
Children's books often depict a friendly hedgehog with a smile.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a Porcupine
Remember, a hedgehog is smaller than a porcupine and has different types of spines.
She corrected her friend's mistake, explaining that Sonic is a hedgehog, not a porcupine.
Pro Tip 3/3Animal Behavior
Hedgehogs roll into balls for protection, a unique behavior that helps identify them.
The story described the hedgehog's escape by rolling into a spiky ball.
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Christopher Golden: Bush...
We did this in both diurnal and nocturnal surveys. We wanted to understand the ways in which hunting, and I was very unidirectionally focused, looking at how hunting impacted these wildlife population dynamics, and not just lemurs but the tenrecs. These are like little hedgehogs. We set up a mark and capture project
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Cutest Animal in the...
fully grown and neither are they hedgehogs although they seem to resemble them so closely there are a strange extremely primitive creature called a tenrec and they live no one else in the world but in Madagascar the local people have superstitions and taboos connected with nearly all their animals and they
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Sir David Attenborough...
these small creatures are baby hedgehogs but they're not babies for these are fully grown and neither are they hedgehogs although they seem to resemble them so closely they are a strange extremely primitive creature called a tenrec and they live nowhere else in the world
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The strange case of the...
and realized what had eluded scientists for four decades. Something must have gone awry involving the hedgehog gene. Let's take a step back. Genes contain instructions that tell cells what to do and when to do it, and they communicate their directives using proteins.
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How couples can sustain...
Years, maybe, of all these difficult feelings. In the book, I use this really silly metaphor of difficult feelings as sleepy hedgehogs that you are fostering until you can find a way to set them free by turning toward them with kindness and compassion.
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Is Your Perfume Made...
birds, hedgehogs, foxes, different animals. And it just seems that you guys over there have exactly the same importance. Very true. Yes, exactly. Exactly. Yeah. What are your hopes for the future of Oud, agarwood in this industry.
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Sick Hedgehog goes for...
threatened and they become completely protected with their Shield of spines hedgehogs also have a tail which is about five centimetres long but this is always tucked away underneath it's by
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Hedgehogs Mating With...
prickles to help the male is unclear but it does seem that the old joke that asks how do hedgehogs mate was right all along the answer is of course with great care
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Hedgehog Mating Rituals...
prickles to help the male is unclear but it does seem that the old joke that asks how do hedgehogs mate was right all along the answer is of course with great care
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A Collection Of Spring...
the hedgehog is still very much a creature of the night but it's too big to hide in the leaf litter that makes it vulnerable to attack from
Video examples
Christopher Golden: Bush...
We did this in both diurnal and nocturnal surveys. We wanted to understand the ways in which hunting, and I was very unidirectionally focused, looking at how hunting impacted these wildlife population dynamics, and not just lemurs but the tenrecs. These are like little hedgehogs. We set up a mark and capture project
Video examples
Cutest Animal in the...
fully grown and neither are they hedgehogs although they seem to resemble them so closely there are a strange extremely primitive creature called a tenrec and they live no one else in the world but in Madagascar the local people have superstitions and taboos connected with nearly all their animals and they
Video examples
Sir David Attenborough...
these small creatures are baby hedgehogs but they're not babies for these are fully grown and neither are they hedgehogs although they seem to resemble them so closely they are a strange extremely primitive creature called a tenrec and they live nowhere else in the world
Video examples
The strange case of the...
and realized what had eluded scientists for four decades. Something must have gone awry involving the hedgehog gene. Let's take a step back. Genes contain instructions that tell cells what to do and when to do it, and they communicate their directives using proteins.
Video examples
How couples can sustain...
Years, maybe, of all these difficult feelings. In the book, I use this really silly metaphor of difficult feelings as sleepy hedgehogs that you are fostering until you can find a way to set them free by turning toward them with kindness and compassion.
Video examples
Is Your Perfume Made...
birds, hedgehogs, foxes, different animals. And it just seems that you guys over there have exactly the same importance. Very true. Yes, exactly. Exactly. Yeah. What are your hopes for the future of Oud, agarwood in this industry.
Video examples
Sick Hedgehog goes for...
threatened and they become completely protected with their Shield of spines hedgehogs also have a tail which is about five centimetres long but this is always tucked away underneath it's by
Video examples
Hedgehogs Mating With...
prickles to help the male is unclear but it does seem that the old joke that asks how do hedgehogs mate was right all along the answer is of course with great care
Video examples
Hedgehog Mating Rituals...
prickles to help the male is unclear but it does seem that the old joke that asks how do hedgehogs mate was right all along the answer is of course with great care
Video examples
A Collection Of Spring...
the hedgehog is still very much a creature of the night but it's too big to hide in the leaf litter that makes it vulnerable to attack from
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Steve Backshall
Hedgehogs need somewhere to hibernate through the winter, but also a place that they can lie out at during the day. So have a few places around your garden that are a bit wild, maybe a log pile, potentially even a hedgehog home, all of which are going to be prime real estate for one of these little guys.
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Joanna Lumley
English Actress
I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it's a lack of concern.
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James Collins
Athlete
The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept.
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Douglas Adams
English Writer
If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
German Poet
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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Jairam Ramesh
Indian Economist
India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Russian Statesman
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
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Clifford Geertz
American Scientist
I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Quote examples
Billy Sunday
American Clergyman
Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
Quote examples
Steve Backshall
Hedgehogs need somewhere to hibernate through the winter, but also a place that they can lie out at during the day. So have a few places around your garden that are a bit wild, maybe a log pile, potentially even a hedgehog home, all of which are going to be prime real estate for one of these little guys.
Quote examples
Joanna Lumley
English Actress
I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it's a lack of concern.
Quote examples
James Collins
Athlete
The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept.
Quote examples
Douglas Adams
English Writer
If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
Quote examples
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
German Poet
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
Quote examples
Jairam Ramesh
Indian Economist
India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.
Quote examples
Nikita Khrushchev
Russian Statesman
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
Quote examples
Clifford Geertz
American Scientist
I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.
Quote examples
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Quote examples
Billy Sunday
American Clergyman
Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
Example 1 of 10
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