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Another word for hedge

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hedge

n.

fence, hedgerow, thornbush, shrubbery, enclosure, boundary, bushes, thicket, hurdle, obstacle, windbreak, quickset (British); see also bush 1, plant.

Shrubs and plants used for hedges include: boxwood, box, holly, Russian privet, Japanese privet, California privet, mock privet, jasmine box, hawthorn, hedge thorn, Osage orange, honey locust, Russian olive, rose, honeysuckle, white willow, hedge laurel, myrtle, dogrose, juniper, Glastonbury thorn, wait-a-bit thorn, Washington thorn, furze, broom, gorse, yucca, prickly pear cactus, ocatilla cactus, organ-pipe cactus, forsythia, lilac, azalea, camellia, hibiscus, oleander, rhododendron, spirea, hydrangea, barberry.

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Another word for hedge

noun

The use or an instance of equivocal language:

ambiguity, equivocation, equivoque, euphemism, prevarication, shuffle, tergiversation, weasel word. (Informal) waffle. See clear

verb

To shut in on all sides:
begird, beset, circle, compass, encircle, encompass, environ, gird, girdle, hem, ring¹, surround. See open
To surround and advance upon:
besiege, close in, enclose, envelop, hem. See open
To use evasive or deliberately vague language:
equivocate, euphemize, shuffle, tergiversate, weasel. (Informal) pussyfoot, waffle. Idioms: beat about (or around) the bush, mince words. See clear
To avoid fulfilling or answering completely:
dodge, duck, evade, sidestep, skirt. See seek

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The author then points out the great advantages of enclosure; recommends " quycksettynge, dychynge and hedgeyng "; and gives particular directions about settes, and the method of training a hedge, as well as concerning the planting and management of trees.
In cutting, the hedge (as indeed all hedges) should be XVI.
High, growing in hedge-banks, copses and borders of fields.
Be cut short, a hedge of young shoots is inevitable.
Hawthorn has been for many centuries a favourite park and hedge plant in Europe, and numerous varieties have been developed by cultivation; these differ in the form of the leaf, the white, pink or red, single or double flowers, and the yellow, orange or red fruit.

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