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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
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warthog
English
Etymology
wart +? hog
Noun
warthog (plural warthogs)
- A wild pig of the genus Phacochoerus, native to Africa.
- A nickname for the A-10 Thunderbolt II air support warplane
Hyponyms
- (wild pig): Phacochoerus aethiopicus, Phacochoerus africanus
Derived terms
- Cape warthog (Phacochoerus aethiopicus aethiopicus)
- common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus)
- desert warthog (Phacochoerus aethiopicus)
- Somali warthog (Phacochoerus aethiopicus delamerei)
Translations
References
- warthog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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