hedgerow

Questions about hedgerow

What does hedgerow mean?

hedgerow means "a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes".

How many syllables are in hedgerow?

hedgerow has 3 syllables and divides as hed-ge-row under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hedgerow?

Close synonyms include hedge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hedgerow a common word?

hedgerow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.