hedgerow

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Yonder rolled the downs, all golden green in the light of the sinking sun, nearer at hand lay the meadows, very sheets of buttercup gold; every leaf and twig of the hedgerow was a-glitter, too--all Nature, it seemed, had arrayed itself in splendour to correspond with the old pauper's sudden access of wealth.

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  1. noun A row of bushes, shrubs, or trees forming a hedge.

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  • He knows every passage, hedgerow, and hiding-place on that decrepit wheel. —  AnalogSFF,May2007
  • His gaze moved to his left and he saw a high stone wall and a weathered hedgerow, and behind them both the peaked rooftop of a country manor. —  TheGlassBooksoftheDreamEaters
  • Anorak has lost count of the time it has penned "F*** OFF I know all about you and how Cliff Richard shagged you in Cilla Black's hedgerow, and Una Stubbs watched" and then wound up losing money. —  Anorak News
  • Jatropha has long been used as a hedgerow and, less frequently, as a parasol to shade coffee crops. —  BusinessWeek.com --
  • If the sale is approved, the 170m long strip of mature hedgerow - habitat for foxes, badgers, and birds - would be destroyed and developed into a 7-storey tower block and "cycle houses." —  Indymedia Ireland
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