hedgerow

«hedgerow» in Mova's school dictionary: A row of bushes, shrubs and small trees growing along the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a hedgerow, hedgerows)

meaning for a pupil

A row of bushes, shrubs and small trees growing along the edge of a field or a country lane. tree →

sense in the lessons

Hedgerows are typical of the British and Irish countryside. In science, a hedgerow is a habitat: birds nest in it, hedgehogs and dormice hide in it, and blackberries, hawthorn and wild roses grow there. In The Wind in the Willows, the animals travel along country lanes between hedgerows, and Toad's caravan rolls past them. Many hedgerows were pulled up for bigger fields, and now people are planting them again.

examples

• Blackbirds nest in the hedgerow. tree →
• We picked blackberries from the hedgerow. tree →
• The hedgehog hid under the hedgerow. tree →
• The lane ran between tall hedgerows full of flowers. tree →
• Hedgerows give food and shelter to many animals. tree →
• We counted 12 kinds of plants in 30 metres of hedgerow. tree →
• They then went to bed in a cozy nest in the hedgerow and slept in quiet and comfort until morning. tree →

note

One word. Countable. Compare hedge (any line of bushes, including a garden hedge); hedgerow is the countryside kind.

In the corpora

• Toad: «The open road, the dusty highway, the heath, the common, the hedgerows, the rolling downs! ...

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hedgerow» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.