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词汇 hedgehog
释义 hedgehog
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈhedʒ.hɒɡ/ us /ˈhedʒ.hɑːɡ/
a small, brown mammal with a covering of sharp spines on its back刺猬
 
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Examples from literature

Things with spikes aren’t usually cute, but how about baby hedgehogs? 

Examples of hedgehog


hedgehog
In other words, if a fox only sees other foxes, does it begin to act like a hedgehog?
It is therefore as respectable a term as the currently fashionable "hedgehog" (and rather more respectable than "quark").
Norwegian hedgehog populations have not previously been surveyed for faecal carriage of salmonella.
The two words we selected were hedgehog and walrus, and our props for these words were beanie-baby stuffed animals.
But hedgehog thinkers still exist among us, and foxes and hedgehogs still disguise themselves as the other for the sake of public appearance.
Others include tenrecs (like a hedgehog), birds, locusts, grubs and shellfish and fish by the sea or in estuaries.
It was suggested that the human outbreak had its origin in an infected hedgehog population.
The construction of the circle maps associated with hedgehogs as described above gives short proofs for some interesting facts.
The percentage of salmonella-carriage was significantly higher among hedgehogs sampled at feeding places (71 %), compared to those captured elsewhere (25 %).
The most abundant mammals are the dryolestids: small, shrew- to hedgehog-sized insectivores with 8-9 molars compared with the 3-4 of modern mammals.
Retinal ganglion cell-derived sonic hedgehog signaling is required for optic disc and stalk neuroepithelial cell development.
Patterning of the zebrafish retina by a wave of sonic hedgehog activity.
This reservoir is located at an altitude that makes the presence of hedgehogs unlikely.
But that hedgehog mentality may be just a disguise.
There stands a tree, there flows a river, there's a hedgehog's run: that's my kind of world.
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