: a row of shrubs or trees enclosing or separating fields
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The Americans pushed inland through the bocage, a landscape of fields or pastures, divided by immense hedgerows, weeds, bushes, and trees.—Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025 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 Ella sprung from the hedgerows onto the brick path, her cry disrupting the swallows on the garden’s branches.—Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 5 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 See All Example Sentences for hedgerow
Word History
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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