Definition of Hedgehogs

1. Noun. (plural of hedgehog) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hedgehogs

1. hedgehog [n] - See also: hedgehog

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hedgehogs

hedgeapple
hedgeapples
hedgeberries
hedgeberry
hedgeborn
hedgebote
hedgebotes
hedged
hedged one's bets
hedgefund
hedgehog
hedgehog cactus
hedgehog cereus
hedgehog signalling pathway
hedgehoglike
hedgehogs
hedgehop
hedgehopped
hedgehopper
hedgehoppers
hedgehopping
hedgehops
hedgeless
hedgelike
hedgepig
hedgepigs
hedger
hedgerow
hedgerows
hedgers

Literary usage of Hedgehogs

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

1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1810)
"27, on the subject of Hedgehogs sucking Cows, and thinking it unfair that the Hedgehog, which I take to be a very innocent animal, should be condemned on ..."

2. The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist,: A Quarterly Journal and Review edited by Llewellyn Frederick William Jewitt, John Charles Cox, John Romilly Allen (1886)
"Another of the same name bore, argent, three Hedgehogs, sable ; another, argent, ... Argent, a chevron, erminois, between three Hedgehogs, or ; a label for ..."

3. Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1893)
"... they are trained) sable-ermine, pole-cats, stoats, sea-otters, moles, musk-rats, shrew mice, hedgehogs ..."

4. Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1882)
"tI do not quite agree with this statement of the showman, that hedgehogs are difficult to tame, for I have had many of them; still, however, they will, ..."

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