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What does erinaceous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a hedgehog.
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Acid-loving plants, often known as erinaceous plants, include azaleas and rhododendrons. Dogwoods, viburnums and clematis are among the plants that will thrive in an alkaline soil.
The body is covered with thick hair, and beset here and there with erinaceous bristles.
The Chad Formation is essentially an argillaceous sequence in which minor erinaceous horizons occur, and the Formation shows considerable lateral and vertical variability in lithology.
Except for the species erinaceous and gregaria the genus Meyenia Carter is simply a union of the genera Ephydatia and Dosalia of Gray.
The sabre toothed tiger, mammoth and the woolly rhinoceros, albeit the aforementioned species have long been extinct, the hedgehog erinaceous has survived.

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