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Definition of Common privet
1. Noun. Deciduous semi-evergreen shrub used for hedges.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Privet
Literary usage of Common privet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"The common privet is a much-branched twiggy shrub, with the bark of a greenish
ash colour, dotted with numerous prominent points. ..."
2. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1864)
"The common Privet, or Prim, as some call it, ie a hardy shrub, growing from five
to six feet in height in its wild state, tenanting rather moist thickets ..."
3. Ornamental Gardening for Americans: A Treatise on Beautifying Homes, Rural by Elias A. Long (1899)
"The common privet (L. vulgare) has small, shining, dark-green leaves and white
flowers in terminal panicles, which are succeeded by small, black berries. ..."
4. Seaside Planting of Trees and Shrubs by Alfred Gaut (1907)
"This is larger-leaved than the common privet (L. vulgare], ... It will, like the
common Privet, grow under trees, is useful as a hedge plant and in other ..."
5. Trees and Shrubs of Central Park by Louis Harman Peet (1903)
"You can know that it is the Californian privet and not the common privet by its
leaves, which are larger and oval, while the leaves of the common privet ..."
6. Trees and Shrubs of Prospect Park by Louis Harman Peet (1902)
"If you go up the Bridle Path a little, you pass at your right some excellent
specimens of the common privet, and you can see how different is its leaf from ..."
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