Definition of Hedgehog

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Hedgehog

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.

The Canadian porcupine.

A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called.

A form of dredging machine.

A variety of transformer with open magnetic circuit, the ends of the iron wire core being turned outward and presenting a bristling appearance, whence the name.

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Hedgehog Quotations

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
Douglas Adams

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
Billy Sunday

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.
Clifford Geertz

The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept.
James Collins

So my answer is, YES, everyone can find a hedgehog concept. If these companies can do it, anyone can do it. And anybody who says they can't is simply whining.
James Collins

Hedgehog Translations

hedgehog in German is Igel
hedgehog in Italian is riccio
hedgehog in Latin is ericius
hedgehog in Norwegian is pinnsvin
hedgehog in Spanish is erizo
hedgehog in Swedish is igelkott

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