Definition of Erinaceidae

1. Noun. True hedgehogs.

Exact synonyms: Family Erinaceidae
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Insectivora, Order Insectivora
Member holonyms: Erinaceus, Genus Erinaceus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Erinaceidae

Erignathus
Erignathus barbatus
Erigonum fasciculatum
Erik
Erik Adolf von Willebrand
Erik Alfred Leslie Satie
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Erik Satie
Erik Weisz
Erik von Willebrand
Erika
Eriksonian
Erimanthos
Erin
Erin go bragh
Erinaceidae (current term)
Erinaceus
Erinaceus europaeus
Erinaceus europeaeus
Erinyes
Erinys
Eriobotrya
Eriobotrya japonica
Eriocaulaceae
Eriocaulon
Eriocaulon aquaticum
Eriodictyon californicum
Eriogonum allenii
Eriophorum
Eriophorum angustifolium

Literary usage of Erinaceidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1903)
"The Hedgehog family (Erinaceidae) has hitherto been found only in the Old World (Europe, Asia, and Africa). It includes three living and five extinct genera ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... remains of a species of hedgehog is a fact of great interest, for the hedgehog-tribe (Erinaceidae) is at the present day an exclusively Old World group. ..."

3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"Erinaceidae.—This family contains the genera Erinaceus, ... The genus is considered by Leche to be the oldest existing type of Erinaceidae. ..."

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