Privet

Definition: Privet

Privet

Noun

1. 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.

Date "privet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Etymology: Privet \Priv"et\, noun. [Compare to Scottish privie, Prov. English prim-print, primwort. probably for primet, and perhaps named from being cut and trimmed. See, Prim, adjective, and compare to Prime to prune, Prim, noun, Prie, noun.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Privet

English words defined with "privet": California privet, Chinese privet ♦ family Oleaceae ♦ genus Ligustrum ♦ Japanese privet ♦ Lawsonia, Ligustrin, Ligustrum, Ligustrum japonicum, Ligustrum lucidum, Ligustrum ovalifolium ♦ Oleaceae, olive family ♦ Pipe tree, Prie, privet hedge ♦ white wax tree. (references)

Etymologies containing "privet": Prie. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Privet

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Privet

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Scrophulariales *
Family:	Oleaceae
Genus:	*Ligustrum*

Species

*Some botanists include the Oleaceae
in the order Lamiales.

Privet was originally a name for the shrub Ligustrum ovalifolium and less often for Ligustrum vulgare, which were used for hedging. The term privets is now used for all members of the genus Ligustrum, which includes a number of ornamental shrubs and trees. They are placed in the olive family.

The flowers are small and fragrant and borne in panicles. They have four curled-back petals and two high stamens with yellow or red(?) anthers, between which is the low pistil; the petals and stamens fall off after the flower is fertilized, leaving the pistil in the calyx tube. The fruits, borne in clusters, are small purple drupes. In favorable growing conditions, individual shrubs may produce thousands of fruits. In the United States, and worldwide, many privet species introduced outside their native ranges have become invasive, spreading into wilderness areas and displacing native species.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Privet."

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Commercial Usage: Privet

Domain	Title
Books	Polly and the Privet Bird (reference) Privet s fronta : povesti i rasskazy (reference) The smell of privet (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Privet

"Privet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 46.97% of the time. "Privet" is used about 132 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	46.97%	62	42,755
Noun (proper)	41.67%	55	45,713
Lexical Verb (base form)	11.36%	15	90,616
Total	100.00%	132	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Privet

Expressions using "privet": amur privet ♦ California privet ♦ chinese privet ♦ common privet ♦ Egyptian privet ♦ Evergreen privet ♦ ibolium privet ♦ ibota privet ♦ japanese privet ♦ mock privet ♦ pipe privet ♦ privet andromeda ♦ privet hedge. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Privet

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
privet	110	picture privet	4
privet hedge	59	privet tree	4
privet school	11	plant privet	4
golden privet	9	back boy close day drawing drive drowsy far flat flowerbed four his hottest house in large lay left lying number only outside outside over person privet silence so square summer teenage who	4
cheyenne privet	8	privet varigated	4
golden privet vicary	8	part privet	3
privet drive	8	hardy amur privet	3
privet sex	8	bush privet	3
japanese privet	7	close day drawing drive drowsy far hottest house large lay over privet silence so square summer	3
privet shrub	7	evergreen hedge privet	3
chinese privet	7	amur hedge privet	3
privet variegated	6	hedge privet pruning	3
leaf privet wax	6	lodense privet	3
florida privet	6	address addressing ip privet solution	3
california privet	6	photo privet	3
privet voyeur	6	japanese privet tree	3
amur privet	6	hedge picture privet	3
privet texas	5	eye privet	2
jet privet	5	grow hedge privet	2
privet ryan saving	4	ligustrum privet	2
privet waxleaf	4	hedge plant privet	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Privet

Language		Translations for "privet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		voshtër. (various references)

Arabic		‏جنبة الرباط. (various references)

Bulgarian		лугуструм. (various references)

Czech		ptaèí zob. (various references)

Danish		liguster (common privet, European privet). (various references)

Dutch		liguster (wild privet). (various references)

Esperanto		ligustro. (various references)

Finnish		aitalikusteri (common privet, European privet). (various references)

French		troène. (various references)

German		Tintenbeerstrauch (common privet, European privet), Rainweide, Liguster (common privet, European privet), Hartriegel (dogwood), Griessholz (common privet, European privet), gemeine Rainweide (common privet, European privet), gemeine Liguster (common privet, European privet). (various references)

Greek		αγριομυρτιά. (various references)

Hungarian		fagyal, fagyalbokor. (various references)

Italian		ligustro. (various references)

Manx		privad. (various references)

Pig Latin		ivetpray

Portuguese		ligustro, alfena (common privet, European privet). (various references)

Russian		бирючина. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mečkovac, kalina. (various references)

Spanish		alheña (blight, henna, mildew). (various references)

Swedish		liguster (common privet, European privet). (various references)

Turkish		kurtbağrı. (various references)

Ukrainian		бирючина (prim). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Privet

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	ligustrum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Privet

Derivations
	Words beginning with "privet": privets. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Privet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: paivet, piret, pivat, pivet, pivit, poive, prave, preve, prevest, prevet, prift, pripet, priv, privas, privat, prive, privee, privest, Privett, privey, privi, priviet, privit, privo, privot, privu, privye, prizet. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Privet"

Words rhyming with "privet" (pronounced 'Priv"et'): Acquiet, Anet, Armet, Becket, Blushet, Brocket, Budget, Bushet, Cachet, Chewet, Chuet, Claret, Clicket, Comet, Crevet, Crewet, Crocket, Crownet, Cruet, Crumpet, Flacket, Flasket, freshet, grivet, HATCHET, Latchet, Levet, locket, Malet, midget, Miscovet, Moonet, Nidget, Nymphet, Owlet, Piet, Placket, Planchet, Planet, Plashet, Pledget, Poet, Poket, Popet, Porket, Pricket, Prophet, Puet, Purset, Pyet. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Privet

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-p-r-t-v"
	-1 letter: rivet, tripe, viper.
	-2 letters: peri, pert, pier, ripe, rite, rive, tier, tire, trip, vert, vier.
	-3 letters: ire, per, pet, pie, pit, rei, rep, ret, rev, rip, tie, tip, vet, vie.
	-4 letters: er, et, it, pe, pi, re, ti.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-p-r-t-v"
	+1 letter: overtip, private, privets.
	+2 letters: eruptive, livetrap, overtips, privater, privates, priviest, sorptive, sportive.
	+3 letters: depravity, eruptives, evaporite, irruptive, livetraps, operative, overprint, overslipt, partitive, portative, positiver, poverties, primitive, privateer, privately, privatest, privatise, privative, privatize, privities, proactive, probative, promotive, provident, purgative, receptive, vaporetti.
	+4 letters: absorptive, adsorptive, ascriptive, corruptive, disruptive, eruptively, evaporites, evaporitic, imperative, operatives, overprints, overtipped, pejorative, perceptive, perfective, permeative, perovskite, perversity, perverting, preceptive, predictive, preemptive, prevenient, preventing, prevention, preventive, primitives, privateers, privatised, privatises, privatives, privatized, privatizes, productive, projective, protective, protensive, protrusive, purgatives, redemptive, reparative, repetitive, resorptive, respective, separative, sportively, supportive, vespertine, vituperate, voiceprint.
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