hedgehog (any mammal of family Erinaceidae)
snell (fishing); leader; trace; cast
short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossidae spp.); spiny anteater
black locust; robinia pseudoacacia
white-throated needletail (species of swift, Hirundapus caudacutus)
needlework; sewing; seamstress
memorial service for old needles
bed of nails; bed of thorns; bed of needles
Gasterosteus microcephalus (species of stickleback)
golden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta); Madokai's cuttlefish (Sepia madokai)
tiger-tail spruce (Picea polita)
Burmeister's porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis)
seam; stitch; eye of a needle
exaggeration; making a mountain out of a molehill
hell's mountain of needles