The fruit of the Osage orange tree (Maclura pomifera), also known as the hedge tree.

(botany) The Osage orange tree.

A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.

(transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges. / (transitive) To obstruct or surround. / (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.

(finance) Any unregistered investment fund, often characterised by unconventional strategies (i.e., strategies other than investing long only in bonds, equities or money markets).

(ethics, uncountable) The belief that pleasure or happiness is the highest good in life. Some hedonists, such as the Epicureans, have insisted that pleasure of the entire mind, not just pleasure of the senses, is the highest good.

Someone devoted to hedonism.

An elementary school in which students are taught to read Hebrew texts.

(biochemistry, sometimes capitalized) A morphogenic protein that controls cell division of adult stem cells and has been implicated in the development of some cancers.

(horticulture) Any Old World ivy of the genus Hedera