privet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub with small leaves and white flowers, often planted as a hedge

   A dense privet hedge screened the garden from the road.

Common collocations

• privet hedge Noun + noun

From Middle English privet, the name of the hedge shrub; its further origin is uncertain. It is unrelated to Russian privet, 'hello,' despite the identical spelling in transliteration.

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