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Hedgerow

//ˈhɛd͡ʒɹəʊ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A row of closely planted bushes or trees forming a hedge.

    "He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin."

  2. 2
    a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English heggerowe, heggerewe, heggerawe, from Old English *heċġrāw, *heċġrǣw (attested only as Old English heġerǣwe, heġerēwe (“hedgerow”)), equivalent to hedge + row.

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