: a row of shrubs or trees enclosing or separating fields
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Descend into a world of low-slung loungers and flickering candles—where treatments range from warm rose oil massages to cryotherapy facials and hedgerow scrubs that feel like countryside meets couture.—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025 Habitat loss has been insidious — croplands have been stripped of their bordering hedgerows and old fields and woodlots have been converted to housing developments.—Bruce Beehler, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2025 The property uses timber from their own trees for firewood, and plants at least 200 trees, plants, hedgerows, and wildflowers every year.—Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2025 For those who know its story—who understand the quiet symbolism behind each hedgerow and crabapple tree—the meaning endures.—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 3 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hedgerow
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First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of hedgerow was
before the 12th century
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