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Answer for the clue "Wonderland croquet ball ", 8 letters:
hedgehog

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Word definitions for hedgehog in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c. (replacing Old English igl ), from hedge (n.) + hog (n.); the second element a reference to its pig-like snout.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A ''' hedgehog ''' is any of the spiny mammals of the subfamily Erinaceinae , in the order Eulipotyphla . There are seventeen species of hedgehog in five genera , found through parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, and in New Zealand by introduction. There ...

Usage examples of hedgehog.

Chinese technicians bustled around a massive globate housing that bristled like a hedgehog with converging laser assemblies.

I just went out for a moment with the idea of getting a frog or two before hibernating, and it pounced upon me like a hedgehog.

Jedit subsisted on jerboas, a big-eared fox, a dead vulture, a hyena, a covey of hedgehogs, dead sheep, snakes, and any other creature that crossed his path.

For a while I was all jiggy, stuffed up inside with hedgehog needles but the tablets must have done the trick for one day when I seen your man outside in the grounds I went after him.

They ate roast pig garnished with bistort and nettle tops, flat loaves of barley bread, stewed hedgehog, and greens, and drank enough ale to fill two rivers while Weiwara told the story of how the ancient queen Toothless built the tumulus with magic.

Sharpened stakes were stuck in the sides of the ramparts, so that the compound bristled, like some great hedgehog of wood and mud.

Bug, who stood in the hallway on my other side, bristling like a diminutive hedgehog.

Here, pangolins from Asia, carnivores from North America, hoofed creatures from Africa, European insectivores like ancestral hedgehogs, and even anteaters from South America mingled and competed.

The long tail too is against its resemblance to the hedgehogs, which rests principally on its spiny pelage.

Queen Amballa and her pigmy shrews grouped with the big hedgehogs on one side, while Starwort and his otters mingled with the Gawtrybe squirrels.

Repeat all the experiments upon a hedgehog as soon as you receive this, and they will give you the solution.

The pig and the wild boar, the long-eared hare, the hedgehog, the ichneumon, the moufflon, or maned sheep, innumerable gazelles, including the Egyptian gazelles, and antelopes with lyre-shaped horns, are as much West Asian as African, like the carnivors of all sizes, whose prey they are--the wild cat, the wolf, the jackal, the striped and spotted hyenas, the leopard, the panther, the hunting leopard, and the lion.

Hitler promptly radioed back, telling Paulus to move his headquarters into the city and form a hedgehog defense.

I observed the rhythms of the night: the fleeting movements of owl and rodent, the scruffles of foraging hedgehogs, the prowling of the restive djinn.

Otters, hedgehogs, mice, squirrels, moles and vast numbers of shrews stood surrounding the hill.