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PRIVET
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Dictionary entry overview: What does privet mean?
• PRIVET (noun)
The noun PRIVET has 1 sense:
1. any of various Old World shrubs having smooth entire leaves and terminal panicles of small white flowers followed by small black berries; many used for hedges
Familiarity information: PRIVET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various Old World shrubs having smooth entire leaves and terminal panicles of small white flowers followed by small black berries; many used for hedges
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("privet" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "privet"):
Amur privet; Ligustrum amurense (eastern Asian shrub cultivated especially for its persistent foliage)
ibolium privet; ibota privet; Ligustrum ibolium (fast-growing and tightly branched hybrid of Ligustrum ovalifolium and Ligustrum obtusifolium)
Japanese privet; Ligustrum japonicum (evergreen shrub of Japan and Korea having small dark leaves and flowers in loose panicles; related to but smaller than Chinese privet)
Chinese privet; Ligustrum lucidum; white wax tree (erect evergreen treelike shrub of China and Korea and Japan having acuminate leaves and flowers in long erect panicles; resembles Japanese privet)
Ligustrum obtusifolium (small deciduous shrub having graceful arching branches and luxuriant foliage)
California privet; Ligustrum ovalifolium (semi-evergreen Japanese shrub having malodorous flowers; used extensively for hedges because more likely to stay green that common privet)
common privet; Ligustrum vulgare (deciduous semi-evergreen shrub used for hedges)
Holonyms ("privet" is a member of...):
genus Ligustrum; Ligustrum (genus of Old World shrubs: privet)
Context examples
Nothing was to be seen save that some body or bundle had been dragged through a low privet hedge which is in a line with the wood-pile.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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