Resembles a hedgehog

• Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar

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n. The tenrec

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar; resembles a hedgehog [syn: tenrec ]

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Tendrac \Ten"drac\, n. [See Tenrec .] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of small insectivores of the family Centetid[ae] , belonging to Ericulus , Echinope , and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog ...