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hedgehogs

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hedgehogs.

Editorial note

> high context fox-like (a la terrence tao's foxes and hedgehogs) Pedantically, I think you mean Isaiah Berlin's foxes and hedgehogs[0].

Examples18
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Certain flowering plants with parts resembling a member of family Erinaceidae

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hedgehogs gathered in one view.

noun

Certain flowering plants with parts resembling a member of family Erinaceidae

noun

Medicago intertexta, the pods of which are armed with short spines.

noun

Retzia capensis of South Africa.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hedgehogs.

noun

Certain flowering plants with parts resembling a member of family Erinaceidae

noun

Medicago intertexta, the pods of which are armed with short spines.

noun

Retzia capensis of South Africa.

noun

The edible fungus Hydnum repandum.

Example sentences

1

> high context fox-like (a la terrence tao's foxes and hedgehogs) Pedantically, I think you mean Isaiah Berlin's foxes and hedgehogs[0].

2

April 2003 - Attempts to begin a cull of hedgehogs on North Uist in the Western Isles have got under way.

3

See the attempt to remove hedgehogs from some Scottish islands - very expensive failure.

4

Its charges also sank about twice as fast as the hedgehogs, speeding up resolution.

5

And another minor point, we know of divergent evolution for things as complex as large animals, like echidnas and hedgehogs.

6

It’s a cute aphorism, and useful sometimes, but when you look closely or from different angles hedgehogs often have foxy attributes, or vice versa.

7

OK, just what are the hedgehogs up to now?

8

It's the story of foxes and hedgehogs...

9

Now, technically I wouldn't, but I grew up considering, slugs, frogs, hedgehogs, rabbits and mixed small birds as great food.

10

Just today I used it to debug code, write a shader (which, to be fair, it’s only slightly better than me at doing), and tell my daughter and I what hedgehogs and foxes eat.

11

Birds, bye, frogs, bye, mice, bye, hedgehogs don’t come round when your neighbourhood is full of these things, I’ve seen one kill a butterfly for gods sake, anything that moves!

Quote examples

1

There is an expression in Russian, that in English sounds something like "hedgehogs were crying, but kept on chewing the cactus".

2

> Hedgehogs are “type A personalities who believe in Big Ideas – in governing principles about the world...

3

This is especially true of the "Hedgehogs", but "Foxes" do it also.

4

"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."...but the badger knows the most important thing: how to eat hedgehogs.

Proper noun examples

1

The idea that Tetlock puts forward is that pundits divide into two categories, Foxes and Hedgehogs.

2

Tetlock concludes, and Silver endorses this, that Foxes are better at understanding the world than Hedgehogs.

3

Hedgehogs also beat foxes, despite the obvious difference in prediction accuracy in favor of foxes.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hedgehogs in a sentence?

> high context fox-like (a la terrence tao's foxes and hedgehogs) Pedantically, I think you mean Isaiah Berlin's foxes and hedgehogs[0].

What does hedgehogs mean?

Certain flowering plants with parts resembling a member of family Erinaceidae

What part of speech is hedgehogs?

hedgehogs is commonly used as noun.