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Definition of Hedge garlic

Hedge garlic
Hedge Hedge, n. [OE. hegge, AS. hecg; akin to haga an inclosure, E. haw, AS. hege hedge, E. haybote, D. hegge, OHG. hegga, G. hecke. [root]12. See Haw a hedge.] A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden. The roughest berry on the rudest hedge. --Shak. Through the verdant maze Of sweetbrier hedges I pursue my walk. --Thomson. Note: Hedge, when used adjectively or in composition, often means rustic, outlandish, illiterate, poor, or mean; as, hedge priest; hedgeborn, etc. Hedge bells, Hedge bindweed (Bot.), a climbing plant related to the morning-glory (Convolvulus sepium). Hedge bill, a long-handled billhook. Hedge garlic (Bot.), a plant of the genus Alliaria. See Garlic mustard, under Garlic. Hedge hyssop (Bot.), a bitter herb of the genus Gratiola, the leaves of which are emetic and purgative. Hedge marriage, a secret or clandestine marriage, especially one performed by a hedge priest. [Eng.] Hedge mustard (Bot.), a plant of the genus Sisymbrium, belonging to the Mustard family. Hedge nettle (Bot.), an herb, or under shrub, of the genus Stachys, belonging to the Mint family. It has a nettlelike appearance, though quite harmless. Hedge note. (a) The note of a hedge bird. (b) Low, contemptible writing. [Obs.] --Dryden. Hedge priest, a poor, illiterate priest. --Shak. Hedge school, an open-air school in the shelter of a hedge, in Ireland; a school for rustics. Hedge sparrow (Zo["o]l.), a European warbler (Accentor modularis) which frequents hedges. Its color is reddish brown, and ash; the wing coverts are tipped with white. Called also chanter, hedge warbler, dunnock, and doney. Hedge writer, an insignificant writer, or a writer of low, scurrilous stuff. [Obs.] --Swift. To breast up a hedge. See under Breast. To hang in the hedge, to be at a standstill. ``While the business of money hangs in the hedge.' --Pepys.

Meaning of Hedge garlic from wikipedia

- margins of hedges, giving rise to the old British folk name of jack-by-the-hedge. Other common names include: garlic mustard, garlic root, hedge garlic, sauce-alone...
- Galewort - Myrica gale. Sweet gale. Garlicwort - Alliaria officinalis. The hedge garlic. Gentianwort - Any plant of the family Gentianaceae. German Madwort -...
- tree, mimosa, pink siris) Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard, hedge garlic) Allium vineale (crow garlic) Alnus glutinosa (black alder) Anthemis cotula...
- medieval English units, the rope of garlic was a set unit of 15 heads of garlic. 15 such ropes made up the "hundred" of garlic. Egyptian, Gr****, Roman, Thai...
- Alliaria petiolata†‡ – jack-by-the-hedge, garlic mustard, garlic root, hedge garlic, sauce-alone, jack-in-the-bush, penny hedge, poor man's mustard Boechera...
- be fenced with a quince hedge. This unexplained rule meant that Murraysburg once had the largest quantity of quince hedging in the world. According to...
- are gone on drier ground. It is another hornbeam wood, and there is Hedge Garlic, Goldilocks buttercup and Early purple orchids (2010). Cottage and Lambourne...
- petiolata – garlic mustard, hedge garlic Allium N Allium bur****ii – narrow-leaved wild l**** N Allium canadense – Canada wild onion, meadow garlic, meadow...
- Phytolacca americana Garlic Golden garlic – Allium moly Wild garlic – Allium canadense Garlic mustard – Alliaria petiolata Garlic root – Alliaria petiolata...
- garden was a segregated area, normally rectangular and enclosed by a wall or hedge, walls being useful for training fruit trees as well as offering shelter...