Definition of hedgerow
: a row of shrubs or trees enclosing or separating fields
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The course blasts through farmlands and villages, runs past hedgerows and stone fences and lifts from sea level to 1,300 feet on the island's Snaefell Mountain.
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Study lead author Mathews agrees that communities and landowners need to leave marginal wild spaces like hedgerows and railway embankments alone.
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Dart between the rows of beans, along the ditches, down the hedgerows.
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As these landscapes bent to humans' will, the birds followed suit, building their nests in hedgerows and eating croplands' insects and seeds.
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Over the past decade, the company has donated over one million dollars to pollinator education and research, and installed six and a half miles of permanent hedgerow at their almond supplier farm, which creates a year-round bee-positive habitat.
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The bluebells arrive, like an iridescent blue carpet below, spreading along hedgerows, suddenly swamping forests and copses, emerging out of the rotten, sodden leaves of last autumn.
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Behind the hedgerows of their magnificent castles, these anachronistic curiositiesare interesting in the way a collection of old stamps might be, or insects with gossamer wings under glass.
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Known for her organic-looking plaster sculptures that can appear to be simultaneously eroding and growing, Ms. Al-Hadid is making two 14-foot-tall lacy wall fragments framed by hedgerows that create an outdoor room visitors can enter.
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First Known Use of hedgerow
before 12th century
HEDGEROW Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of hedgerow for English Language Learners
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: a row of shrubs or trees that form the boundary of an area
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Definition of hedgerow for Students
: a row of shrubs or trees around a field
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