hedgerow
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5.9
- noun
- /ˈhɛdʒroʊ/
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- Farmers often plant a hedgerow to create a natural boundary between their fields.
- fields and hedgerows
The child turned left and went some way before she looked back, letting the blossoming hedgerow hide her.
- The child turned left and went some way before she looked back, letting the blossoming hedgerow hide her.
- Pareidolia faces in the hedgerows appear in the late dusk.
- We just looked, saw each other, stood up, kicked our way through a hedgerow and and fought our way to the next, fought our way the bound to the next sort of like location.
- Who in that costume, you'd see him out in the shadows in the hedgerows and stuff, walking around in the Marquita Sods costume with the little stacked heels.
Examples
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When I was a child, it was all farm country around there: big wide-open fields and thick hedgerows along the roads.
Academic text (2010) -
Across the back fence is a hedgerow so thick it prevents the view of the adjoining lot.
Fiction book (1995) -
The child turned left and went some way before she looked back, letting the blossoming hedgerow hide her.
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On either side of us were hay fields, with tall hedgerows along the road.
Academic text (2010) -
The sweetness of the English countryside... of wet hedgerows with birds singing inside them.
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At the edge of the airfield, a hedgerow and beyond it, a farmhouse, crops, and some sheep grazing.
Fiction book (1990) -
Cardinals, grosbeaks, and other neotropical migrants were resting and singing in the hedgerows.
Academic text (2001) -
Within the rectangular fields enclosed with hedgerows, the dispersed settlements and winding roads and paths maintain their traditional charm.
Academic text (1999) -
The idea is to keep the hedgerows untouched and have an eight-foot margin either side before the crop line, and do you know the ground nesting birds have already quadrupled?
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The topiary, sculpted hedgerows, the ponds, grand lawns, and lost paths had become rides, concessions, and pavilions.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
567
1.0
A structure around land to mark or protect it
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2.0
A row of closely planted bushes that forms a low natural fence
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3.5
A row of privet bushes planted close together to make a living fence for a garden
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Etymology
Hedgerow comes from two simple words, hedge ('a fence of bushes') and row ('a line'). So a hedgerow is literally a line of shrubs used as a living fence, which is exactly what the word means today.