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  • noun Plural form of hedgerow.

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Examples

  • But grumble me not because the by product of hedge massacre apart from neat hedgerows, is trillions of ash stalks, and ash has a very good use.

    45 entries from March 2008 2008

  • The reason we have widespread Fuchsia in Irish hedgerows and Rhodedendron in Scotland is nothing to do with warming.

    RealClimate 2009

  • The reason we have widespread Fuchsia in Irish hedgerows and Rhodedendron in Scotland is nothing to do with warming.

    RealClimate 2009

  • The native dog rose Rosa canina of our hedgerows is a single rose.

    Gardens: Roses - A modern romance Hazel Sillver 2010

  • I recalled the hedgerows, and a sparrow's nest I had once seen in one.

    The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

  • The Wych Elm is probably a true native, but the more common Elm of our hedgerows is a tree of Southern Europe and North Africa, and is of such modern introduction into England that in Evelyn's time it was rarely seen north of Stamford.

    The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

  • Under the stems of the ilex peep cyclamens, pink and sweet; the hedgerows are a tangle of vetches, convolvuluses, lupines, orchises, and alliums, with here and there a purple iris.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

  • Under the stems of the ilex peep cyclamens, pink and sweet; the hedgerows are a tangle of vetches, convolvuluses, lupines, orchises, and alliums, with here and there a purple iris.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

  • Even in the Spring I particularly remember a host of bluebells growing just above the river bank and these, along with the primroses which grew in the hedgerows are my abiding memory of Spring in West Cumbria.

    Whitehaven News headlines 2010

  • Even in the Spring I particularly remember a host of bluebells growing just above the river bank and these, along with the primroses which grew in the hedgerows are my abiding memory of Spring in West Cumbria.

    Whitehaven News headlines 2010

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