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
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privet::noun | Spocien Dictionary
Examples of privet
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We have a privacy hedge behind our garage that is planted with variegated privet.
From the thestate.com
Remnants of old houses can be found among landscape shrubs like lilac and privet.
From the cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com
I pollard my golden privet each winter because only the new growth is yellow.
From the ocregister.com
Sure, it smells great and can spruce up an otherwise unsightly privet hedge.
From the post-gazette.com
Leonore Pereira at the privet family gallery in San Francisco, Ca on March 27, 2012.
From the sfgate.com
I don't know about you, but it sounds infinitely preferable to privet to me.
From the guardian.co.uk
Hawthorn and privet hedges could do with some attention, too, to encourage thickening.
From the people.co.uk
They cut their way through masses of privet seedlings and blackberry vines.
From the sacbee.com
I have a fantasy that this beauty will start replacing privet hedges in front gardens.
From the guardian.co.uk
- 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
- Privet was originally the name for the European semi-evergreen shrub Ligustrum vulgare, and later also for the more reliably evergreen Ligustrum ovalifolium (Japanese privet), used extensively for privacy hedging. ...
- Any of various shrubs and small trees in the genus Ligustrum
