privet

English
privet Ligustrum sinense

Wikispecies

Etymology 1

Unknown origin, but possibly connected to prime.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpɹɪ.vɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ɪvɪt

Noun

privet (countable and uncountable, plural privets)

  1. Any of various shrubs and small trees in the genus Ligustrum.
    • 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 1, in The Subtle Minotaur‎:
      Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.
Derived terms
  • Egyptian privet
  • evergreen privet
  • mock privet
Translations

Etymology 2

From Russian приве́т (privét, “hello, hi”)

Interjection

privet

  1. (informal) hello, hi
Translations
hello — see hello

Latin

Verb

prīvet

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of prīvō
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