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名詞

hoglet (plural hoglets)

1. A baby hedgehog.
   • 2008, Michael Leach, Hedgehog‎, page 8:

     At birth, newborn hoglets are pink, blind, and completely helpless.

   • 2018, Massimo Vacchetta, Antonella Tomaselli, A Handful of Happiness: How a Prickly Creature Softened a Prickly Heart, unnumbered page:

     In nature, hoglets that age would follow their mother out of the nest and learn from her how to procure food by digging in the ground.

   • 2021 August 12, Noelle Mateer, “Looks That Quill: The Dark Side of Hedgehog Instagram”, in Wired:

     If the hog parents develop the disease, you can be pretty sure the hoglets will too—even when they’re raised in different places, fed different diets, cared for by different owners.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hoglet.