hedgehog
- noun
- B2
- less common
A small brown animal with sharp spines on its back that comes out at night and eats insects.
A hedgehog rolled into a tight ball when the dog barked.
We leave a bowl of water out for the hedgehogs.
Hedgehogs sleep through the winter under piles of dry leaves.
Something was rustling in the dark; it was only a hedgehog.
Common collocations: a hedgehog rolls into a ball · hedgehog spines · feed a hedgehog · a hibernating hedgehog
Part of: Animals
Forms
- plural
- hedgehogs