HEDGEHOG


Meaning of HEDGEHOG in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

little

The little hedgehog smoothed her quills and tried to look dignified.

I saw a haughty little hedgehog and I was hooked.

young

Seeing him towering over the young hedgehog like that, licking his great, greedy chops ... Oh!

The young hedgehog sniffed at the food.

But the young hedgehog , if she heard, did not turn back.

Half-carrying, half-rolling the stuff, the young hedgehog hauled the food away.

Surely the young hedgehog would be killed.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A hedgehog tries to climb up the net and when it hears you approach it promptly rolls up into a ball.

And when both the flamingo and the hedgehog were ready, there was no hoop!

Baby hedgehogs do not have the spines that so readily identify their parents, but these soon start to grow.

But by then, the hedgehog was tired of waiting and was walking away across the croquet-ground.

I wanted to see a baby hedgehog .

Seeing him towering over the young hedgehog like that, licking his great, greedy chops ... Oh!

Spidery legs, rat eyes, whiffling whiskers: an unearthed hedgehog , part of the general exodus due to building developments nearby.

The only good thing about his rude awakening was the discovery of a gigantic hedgehog behind one of the goalposts.

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