hedgerow

noun

hedge·row | \ˈhej-ˌrō

\

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. — Kyle Swenson, chicagotribune.com, "Motorcycle racing's 'most dangerous' event is underway and a rider is already dead," 1 June 2018 Study lead author Mathews agrees that communities and landowners need to leave marginal wild spaces like hedgerows and railway embankments alone. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "The UK’s Hedgehogs (and Other Mammals) Are In Danger," 16 June 2018 Dart between the rows of beans, along the ditches, down the hedgerows. — Peter Rock, New York Times, "On the Unsettling Allure of ‘Watership Down’," 15 May 2018 As these landscapes bent to humans' will, the birds followed suit, building their nests in hedgerows and eating croplands' insects and seeds. — Tim Graham, National Geographic, "Around the World, Farmland Birds Are in Steep Decline," 1 June 2018 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. — Madison Roberts, PEOPLE.com, "Häagen Dazs Is Giving Away Free Ice Cream Tomorrow—Here's How to Get It," 7 May 2018 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. — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, "Will There Always Be an England?," 27 Apr. 2018 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. — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, "Who cares about the royals? But Meghan Markle . . .," 11 Apr. 2018 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. — Hilarie M. Sheets, New York Times, "Coming to Madison Square Park: Drippy Abstractions and Headless Figures," 8 Feb. 2018

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hedgerow

noun

English Language Learners Definition of hedgerow

: a row of shrubs or trees that form the boundary of an area

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hedgerow

noun

hedge·row | \ˈhej-ˌrō

\

Kids Definition of hedgerow

: a row of shrubs or trees around a field

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