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PRIVET HEDGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does privet hedge mean?
• PRIVET HEDGE (noun)
The noun PRIVET HEDGE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: PRIVET HEDGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hedge of privet plants
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("privet hedge" is a kind of...):
hedge; hedgerow (a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes)
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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