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Hedgehog is London Cockney rhyming slang for a foreigner (wog).
An anti-submarine weapon developed by the RN, and used by the RCN, during World War II. It worked by firing a number of number of mortar bombs in a pattern. The bombs exploded on contact and achieved a higher sinking rate against submarines.
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The urchin, or hedgehog.
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A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.
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A form of dredging machine.
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A hedgehog.
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One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
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Any one of several species of small insectivores of the family Centetidae, belonging to Ericulus, Echinope, and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec.
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A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon.
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A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
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Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.
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A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called.
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A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
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A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs.
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An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog.
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The Canadian porcupine.
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Of the Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog.
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A hedgehog.
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A young hedgehog.
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