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Chinese hedgehogs

Chinese hedgehogs is the plural of Chinese hedgehog.

Meaning of Chinese hedgehog

Noun

Chinese hedgehog (plural Chinese hedgehogs)

  1. (obsolete) A species of hedgehog, Erinaceus amurensis, native to eastern China, Russia, Manchuria, and the Korean Peninsula.
  2. (obsolete) 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

Questions about Chinese hedgehogs

What is Chinese hedgehogs the plural of?
Chinese hedgehogs is the plural of Chinese hedgehog.

Words near Chinese hedgehogs in the dictionary

  1. Chinese hat snail
  2. Chinese hat snails
  3. Chinese hawthorn
  4. Chinese hawthorns
  5. Chinese hedgehog
  6. Chinese hedgehogs
  7. Chinese helicopter
  8. Chinese helicopters
  9. Chinese hibiscus
  10. Chinese hibiscuses
  11. Chinese home run

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