Chinese hedgehog
Chinese hedgehog noun: a species of hedgehog, Erinaceus amurensis, native to eastern China, Russia, Manchuria, and the Korean Peninsula.
Noun
Chinese hedgehog (plural Chinese hedgehogs)
- A species of hedgehog, Erinaceus amurensis, native to eastern China, Russia, Manchuria, and the Korean Peninsula.
- A type of sexual apparatus consisting of a ring and feathers, attached to the penis before sexual intercourse.
- In the first place let us describe the “Chinese hedge-hog”. This is a wreath of fine soft feathers, with their quills solidly fastened by silver wire to a ring of the same metal, made in various sizes, and sufficiently large to slip over the gland, when the penis is not in erection, and small...1898, ‘Jacobus X’, Untrodden Fields of Anthropology, volume I, Paris: Charles Carrington, page 97
- Somewhat similar is the “Chinese hedge-hog,” a wreath of fine soft feathers with the quills solidly fastened by silver wire to a ring of the same metal, which is slipped over the glans.1904, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse, Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, page 84
Forms of Chinese hedgehog
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Questions about Chinese hedgehog
- What does Chinese hedgehog mean?
- Chinese hedgehog means a species of hedgehog, Erinaceus amurensis, native to eastern China, Russia, Manchuria, and the Korean Peninsula.
- What part of speech is Chinese hedgehog?
- Chinese hedgehog is a noun.
- What is the plural of Chinese hedgehog?
- The plural of Chinese hedgehog is Chinese hedgehogs.
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