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A form of dredging machine. Knight. Hedgehog caterpillar (Zoöl.), the hairy larvæ of several species of bombycid moths, as of the Isabella moth. It curls up like a hedgehog when disturbed. See Woolly bear, and Isabella moth. -- Hedgehog fish (Zoöl.), any spinose plectognath fish, esp. of the genus Diodon; the porcupin…

A sea urchin.

tivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog.

velop itself; an attempt; an effort. What conatus could give prickles to the porcupine or hedgehog, or to the sheep its fleece Paley.

ng in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. fishes, and sea hedgehogs.

Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.

A hedgehog.

Of the Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog.

and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon.

A young hedgehog. Shak.

ican moth (Pyrrharctia isabella), of an isabella color. The larva, called woolly bear and hedgehog caterpillar, is densely covered with hairs, which are black at each end of the body, and red in the middle part.

A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.

That which is pointed like a tag. Hedgehogs' or procupines' small taggers. Cotton.

and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec.

A hedgehog.

The urchin, or hedgehog.