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privet

Any of a group of evergreen shrubs with dark green leaves, belonging to the olive family. They include the European common privet (L. vulgare) with white flowers and black berries, naturalized in North America, and the native North American California privet (L. ovalifolium), also known as hedge privet. (Genus Ligustrum, family Oleaceae.)



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My brother saw dimly through the dust that two men lifted out something on a white stretcher and put it gently on the grass beneath the privet hedge.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
"I'm not equal to answering," said Sancho, "for I feel as if I was speaking through my shoulders; let us mount and get away from this; I'll keep from braying, but not from saying that knights-errant fly and leave their good squires to be pounded like privet, or made meal of at the hands of their enemies.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
This is a semicircle cut into the lawn and edged with privet, and in this semicircle are eleven beds of different sizes bordered with box and arranged round a sun-dial, and the sun-dial is very venerable and moss-grown, and greatly beloved by me.
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Von Arnim, Elizabeth View in context
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