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gymnure
English
Etymology
New Latin Gymnura, former genus name, from Ancient Greek ?????? (gumnós, “naked”) + ???? (ourá, “tail”)
Noun
gymnure (plural gymnures)
- A carnivorous mammal, subfamily Galericinae, related to the hedgehogs and resembling large rats, which inhabits various parts of south-east Asia.
Synonyms
- hairy hedgehog
- moonrat
Translations
gymnure From the web:
hedgehog
English
Etymology
From hedge +? hog.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h?d?h??/
Noun
hedgehog (plural hedgehogs)
- A small mammal, of the family Erinaceidae or subfamily Erinaceinae (spiny hedgehogs, the latter characterized by their spiny back and often by the habit of rolling up into a ball when attacked.)
- (US) Any of several spiny mammals, such as the porcupine, that are similar to the hedgehog.
- A type of moveable military barricade made from crossed logs or steel bars, laced with barbed wire, used to damage or impede tanks and vehicles; Czech hedgehog.
- (informal, military, historical) A spigot mortar-type of depth charge weapon from World War II that simultaneously fires a number of explosives into the water to create a pattern of underwater explosions intended to attack submerged submarines.
- (Australia) A type of chocolate cake (or slice), somewhat similar to an American brownie.
- 2005, Paul Mitchell, The Favourite, Frank Moorhouse, The Best Australian Stories 2005, page 145,
- There are hedgehogs with sultanas as well as breadcrumbs, carrot cakes and fruitcakes and banana walnut loaves.
- 2008, Lili Wilkinson, The Not Quite Perfect Boyfriend, unnumbered page,
- I am so flustered that I order a vanilla slice instead of hedgehog.
- 2005, Paul Mitchell, The Favourite, Frank Moorhouse, The Best Australian Stories 2005, page 145,
- A form of dredging machine.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- 1868, "Dredging," article in Charles Tomlinson (editor), Cyclopædia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, Volume 1, page 520,
- The first machines merely loosened, but did not raise the stuff, a scouring being afterwards effected by means of sluices. These machines consisted of large bars or prongs placed vertically in a frame, and being fastened to a barge placed in the line of the sluices, the whole was inpelled forward by the current, thereby scouring the bed. Such a machine, called a hedgehog, is still used in Lincolnshire.
- Certain flowering plants with parts resembling a member of family Erinaceidae
- Medicago intertexta, the pods of which are armed with short spines.
- Retzia capensis of South Africa.
- The edible fungus Hydnum repandum.
- Synonyms: sweet tooth, wood hedgehog
- 1998, Randy Molina, David Pilz, Managing Forest Ecosystems to Conserve Fungus Diversity and Sustain Wild Mushroom Harvests
- Hedgehogs fruit from autumn until late spring. Many consumers are still unfamiliar with hedgehogs, and they have a relatively small commercial trade.
- A kind of electrical transformer with open magnetic circuit, the ends of the iron wire core being turned outward and presenting a bristling appearance.
- A way of serving food at a party, consisting of a half melon or potato etc. with individual cocktail sticks of cheese and pineapple stuck into it.
Synonyms
- (mammal with spines): urchin (archaic), furze-pig (West Country), fuzz-pig (West Country), hedgepig (South England), hedgy-boar (Devon), prickly-pig (Yorkshire), Erinaceus europaeus
- (Medicago intertexta): Calvary clover, Calvary medick, hedgehog medick
Coordinate terms
- (mammal with spines): gymnure
Derived terms
- sonic hedgehog
- Amur hedgehog (Erinaceus amurensis)
- bare-bellied hedgehog (Paraechinus nudiventris)
- Brandt's hedgehog (Paraechinus hypomelas)
- Czech hedgehog
- Daurian hedgehog (Mesechinus dauuricus)
- desert hedgehog (Paraechinus aethiopicus)
- four-toed hedgehog (Atelerix albiventris)
- hedgehog signalling pathway
- Hugh's hedgehog (Mesechinus hughi)
- Indian hedgehog (Paraechinus micropus)
- Indian long-eared hedgehog (Hemiechinus collaris)
- long-eared hedgehog (Hemiechinus auritus)
- North African hedgehog (Atelerix algirus)
- northern white-breasted hedgehog (Erinaceus roumanicus)
- Southern African hedgehog (Atelerix frontalis)
- Somali hedgehog (Atelerix sclateri)
- southern white-breasted hedgehog (Erinaceus concolor)
- European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)
- spiny hedgehog (Echinocereus dasyacanthus)
Translations
Verb
hedgehog (third-person singular simple present hedgehogs, present participle hedgehogging, simple past and past participle hedgehogged)
- (military) To make use of a hedgehog barricade as a defensive maneuver.
- To array with spiky projections like the quills of a hedgehog.
- (transitive, intransitive) To curl up into a defensive ball.
See also
- echidna
- porcupine
- erinaceous
Further reading
- hedgehog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Erinaceinae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Medicago intertexta on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
hedgehog From the web:
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- what hedgehog is sonic
- what hedgehogs can eat
- what hedgehogs look like
- what hedgehog lives the longest
- what hedgehogs do
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