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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:

1. hedge of privet plantsplay

  Familiarity information: PRIVET HEDGE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PRIVET HEDGE (noun)


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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