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How to pronounce hedgehog in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms porcupine
Type of gnawer, rodent
Has types new world porcupine, old world porcupine
Type Words
Synonyms erinaceus europaeus, erinaceus europeaeus
Type of insectivore

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The more serious charge of assault with a weapon, namely a hedgehog, was dropped.
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When PTCH1 is mutated, however, sonic hedgehog signaling continues postnatally.
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Sequential hedgehog attacks were then made by Raby, George, Raby, and Spangler.
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Before that the hedgehog was popular, and the tie-dye ones and the dollar sign.
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For the French government, a hedgehog cost it the equivalent of about $4 million.
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Without hedgehog, the physiological partitions of the embryo become indistinct.
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The hedgehog is occasionally spotted after a rainstorm foraging for earthworms.
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Hedgehog-responsive candidate cell of origin for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma.
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The image shows cerebellar granule precursors grown in presence of sonic hedgehog.
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  • Porcupine: relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur
  • Small nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines
  • A hedgehog is any of the spiny mammals of the subfamily Erinaceinae and the order Erinaceomorpha. There are 17 species of hedgehog in five genera, found through parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and New Zealand. ...
  • In a growing embryo, cells develop differently in the head or tail end of the embryo, the left or right, and other positions. They also form segments which develop into different body parts. ...
  • In chess, the Hedgehog is a pawn formation adopted usually by Black that can arise from several openings. Black exchanges his pawn on c5 for White's pawn on d4, and then places pawns on the squares a6, b6, d6 and e6. These pawns form a row of "spines" behind which Black develops his forces. ...
  • Hedgehog is a Melt-Banana 7" EP released in 1994 on Charnel Music.
  • British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War entailed a large-scale division of military and civilian mobilisation in response to the threat of invasion by German armed forces in 1940 and 1941. ...
  • The Hedgehog (also known as an Anti-Submarine Projector) was an anti-submarine weapon developed by the Royal Navy during World War II, that was deployed on convoy escort warships such as destroyers to supplement the depth charge. ...
  • (The Hedgehogs (Farthing Wood)) Mr. Hedgehog, and his wife Mrs. Hedgehog, are fictional characters from the animated children's television series The Animals of Farthing Wood based upon the books of the same name by author Colin Dann.