Crossword clues for privet
privet
- Soft device for fixing shrub
- Bush needs fix under pressure
- Hedging shrub
- Hedging shrub I check thoroughly after pruner has cut middle
- Dick has to check over rector’s hedge
- Shrub much used for hedges
- Ornamental hedge shrub
- Hedgerow shrub
- Hedge used as a fence
- Fencing hedge
- Dividing shrub
- Dark green shrub
- 4 ___ Drive (where Harry Potter grew up)
- Yard border
- Evergreen hedge
- Shrub often used to mark a boundary
- Hedge shrub
- ___ Drive (street where Harry Potter grew up)
- 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
- Hedge plant
- Type of hedge
- Kind of hedge
- Garden hedge plant
- Common hedge shrub
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Privet \Priv"et\, n. [Cf. Scot. privie, Prov. E. prim-print, primwort. Prob. for primet, and perh. named from being cut and trimmed. See, Prim,
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, and cf. Prime to prune, Prim, n., Prie, n.] (Bot.) An ornamental European shrub ( Ligustrum vulgare), much used in hedges; -- called also prim.
Egyptian privet. See Lawsonia.
Evergreen privet, a plant of the genus Rhamnus. See Alatern.
Mock privet, any one of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Phillyrea. They are from the Mediterranean region, and have been much cultivated for hedges and for fancifully clipped shrubberies.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of evergreen shrub, 1540s, of unknown origin. Early forms primet, primprint perhaps suggest some connection with prime [Klein].
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. Any of various shrubs and small trees in the genus ''Ligustrum''. Etymology 2
interj. (context Russia English) hello, hi
WordNet
n. 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
Wikipedia
A privet is a flowering plant in the genus Ligustrum. The genus contains about 50 species of erect, deciduous or evergreen shrubs, sometimes forming small or medium-sized trees, native to Europe, north Africa, Asia and Australasia. Some species have become widely naturalized or invasive where introduced. Privet was originally the name for the European semi-evergreen shrub Ligustrum vulgare, and later also for the more reliably evergreen Ligustrum ovalifolium used extensively for privacy hedging, though now the name is applied to all members of the genus. The generic name was applied by Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE) to L. vulgare. It is often suggested that the name privet is related to private, but the OED states that there is no evidence to support this.
Privet in Russia means Hello And Privet is a flowering plant in the genus Ligustrum.
Privet may also refer to:
- HMS Privet, several ships of the British Royal Navy
- SS Privet, a ship in the List of shipwrecks in December 1940
- Privet, along with velcom, trademarks of the Belarus mobile phone operator Mobile Digital Communications
Usage examples of "privet".
Harry was startled at first, then remembered that they probably had heard Sam arranging things when they were on Privet Drive.
Years ago Albus disguised himself as a burglar alarm salesman to go round and sell units to everyone on Privet Drive and the houses behind you as well.
Just what he needed in the last weeks before he could leave Privet Drive-Aunt Petunia having a mid-life crisis.
Harry, while Katie drove Harry to Privet Drive so he could shower and change.
As she started the car, he realized that she was probably heading for Privet Drive.
Harry would have thought to slowly walk his aunt the two blocks to Privet Drive and up to her bed.
Harry frowned as he walked back to Privet Drive, unsure what to make of this.
A middle-aged bottle-blonde woman was standing at his kitchen window looking in, her jaw dropped as she gazed into number 4 Privet Drive.
Martin wandered off down Privet Lane, shaking her head with bewilderment.
Sirius and Snape had also just walked up to number four, Privet Drive and gained admittance when they were bringing Hermione and her parents there.
In Marne Road I found the old tip unchanged the same plum curtaining draped the bay window, and as I locked the car, the old wet privet scent filled my nose.
The blind search took me to the South Circular, and I then accelerated away to the neat privet hedges of Golden Hill.
I slipped into a front garden, lay down behind the privet hedge and waited for the voices to go.
Passing the well and the birdbath, they left the privet hedge behind and emerged on the opposite side of the house, near the barn.
She walked to the door and looked out over the garden through the privet hedge to the line of woods beyond.