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Plural of hedgehog

regular plural

The plural of hedgehog is hedgehogs.

Forms of hedgehog

Singularhedgehog /ˈhɛd͡ʒ.hɒɡ/
Pluralhedgehogs
Countablecountable

Hedgehogs in a sentence

  • Many consumers are still unfamiliar with hedgehogs, and they have a relatively small commercial trade.1998, Randy Molina, David Pilz, Managing Forest Ecosystems to Conserve Fungus Diversity and Sustain Wild Mushroom Harvests
  • Hedgehogs and bears are two of the many mammals that hibernate in winter.From the entry hibernate
  • Hedgehogs are needled creatures, just like porcupines.From the entry needled
  • If you get your hands on several of these cuties, you've got yourself an "array of hedgehogs."2015 December 9, “Cute alert: Arizona officials make pet hedgehogs legal”, in Arizona Republic, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2026. From the entry array
  • The several species of small mammals found at Tagay, such as dormice, talpids and hedgehogs, show close affinities to European taxa.2016 November 16, Hanneke Meijer, “Sunny steppes? A tiny parrot fossil suggests Siberia was once subtropical”, in The Guardian. From the entry talpid

Meaning of hedgehog

  1. noun A small mammal of the subfamily Erinaceinae, characterized by their spiny back and often by the habit of rolling up into a ball when attacked, native to Afro-Eurasia.
  2. noun Any of several spiny mammals, such as the porcupine, that are similar to the hedgehog.
  3. noun A spigot mortar-type of depth charge weapon from World War II that simultaneously fires a number of explosives into the water to create a pattern of underwater explosions intended to attack submerged submarines.

Full definition of hedgehog

Questions about the plural of hedgehog

What is the plural of hedgehog?
The plural of hedgehog is hedgehogs.
Is hedgehog countable?
Hedgehog is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hedgehog (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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