- Any one of several species of small insectivores of the
family Centetidae, belonging to Ericulus, Echinope, and related genera,
native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the
hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very
injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec.
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