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English
Etymology
From Middle English heggerowe, heggerewe, heggerawe, from Old English *heċġrāw, *heċġrǣw (attested only as Old English heġerǣwe, heġerēwe (“hedgerow”)), equivalent to hedge + row.
Noun
hedgerow (plural hedgerows)
- A row of closely planted bushes or trees forming a hedge.
- Coordinate terms: fencerow, windbreak
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91
- 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.
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