Definitions for privet

privet priv·et

Spelling: [priv-it]
IPA: /ˈprɪv ɪt/

Privet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 112 anagrams from letters in privet (eiprtv).

Definitions for privet

noun

  1. any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Ligustrum, especially L. vulgare, having clusters of small white flowers and commonly grown as a hedge.

Origin of privet

First recorded in 1535-45; origin uncertain

Examples for privet

After all, the privet was thick and Tony might not have seen.

The larv, however, are to be met with in abundance in privet hedges.

Sometimes these elevations are crowned with privet or some light hedge-plant.

The gate in the privet hedge of The Witan had had little rest all the afternoon.

“Sandal-buds”: the sandal is a low tree, like a privet, and has a great fragrance.

Used a great deal for hedges before the days of the California privet.

What's your notion of a California privet hedge and entertaining the same?

It comes freely to sugar, and has been taken at privet blossom.

privet can easily be grown from cuttings, and I have raised Box from clippings.

And then the old tavern came into sight behind its new hedge of privet.

Word Value for privet
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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