hedgehog

hedgehog

1. (eläintiede) siili

Liittyvät sanat: quill

Synonyymisanakirja

hedgehog

hyönteissyöjä, Erinaceus, Erinaceus-suku, siili, Erinaceus europaeus, Erinaceus europeaeus, jyrsijä, piikkisika.

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hot dog, smog...

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Englannin sanakirja

hedgehog (englanti > suomi)

1. siili

hedgehog englanniksi

1. A small mammal, of the family Erinaceidae or subfamily Erinaceinae ((vern), the latter characterized by their spiny back and often by the habit of rolling up into a ball when attacked.

2. A type of moveable military barricade made from crossed logs or steel bars, laced with barbed wire, used to damage or impede tanks and vehicles; Czech hedgehog.

3. The nickname for 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.

4. puhekieltä A type of chocolate cake (or slice), somewhat similar to an American brownie.

5. 2005, Paul Mitchell, The Favourite, Frank Moorhouse, The Best Australian Stories 2005, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OBRMpu_VrysC&pg=PA145&dq=%22hedgehog%22 %22hedgehogs%22+slice|cake+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pnp9T4uPGKXQiALP_fyzDQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q&f=false page 145,

There are hedgehogs with sultanas as well as breadcrumbs, carrot cakes and fruitcakes and banana walnut loaves.

6. 2008, Lili Wilkinson, The Not Quite Perfect Boyfriend, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=yX8LNt4ErAsC&pg=PT13&dq=%22hedgehog%22 %22hedgehogs%22+slice|cake+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GYR9T7ivKIqfiQKW9_zuDQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22hedgehog%22|%22hedgehogs%22%20slice|cake%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered page,

I am so flustered that I order a vanilla slice instead of hedgehog.

7. 2009, w:Adam Shand (journalist)|Adam Shand, The Skull: Informers, Hit Men and Australias Toughest Cop'', http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fLBaR8rAJEoC&pg=PA199&dq=%22hedgehog%22 %22hedgehogs%22+slice|cake+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pnp9T4uPGKXQiALP_fyzDQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q&f=false page 199,

His wife had made a hedgehog cake and he offered some but Murphy refused – his mouth was so dry with terror he couldn′t swallow.

8. A form of dredging machine.

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9. 1868, "Dredging," article in Charles Tomlinson (editor), Cyclopædia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, Volume 1, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=KDJRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA520&dq=%22hedgehog%22%7C%22hedgehogs%22+dredging&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7nVvU8aGNYyjkgWfzYDYAw&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22hedgehog%22%7C%22hedgehogs%22%20dredging&f=false page 520,

The first machines merely loosened, but did not raise the stuff, a scouring being afterwards effected by means of sluices. These machines consisted of large bars or prongs placed vertically in a frame, and being fastened to a barge placed in the line of the sluices, the whole was inpelled forward by the current, thereby scouring the bed. Such a machine, called a hedgehog, is still used in Lincolnshire.

10. The flowering plant (taxlink), the pods of which are armed with short spines.

11. A kind of electrical transformer with open magnetic circuit, the ends of the iron wire core being turned outward and presenting a bristling appearance.

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