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privets

privets is the plural of privet.

Meaning of privet

Noun

privet (countable and uncountable, plural privets)

  1. Any of various shrubs and small trees in the genus Ligustrum.
    • 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.1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 1, in The Subtle Minotaur

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Phrases with privets

Questions about privets

What is privets the plural of?
Privets is the plural of privet.

Words near privets in the dictionary

  1. priveledges
  2. prively
  3. privet
  4. privet hawk moth
  5. privet hawk moths
  6. privets
  7. Privett
  8. Privette
  9. Privettes
  10. Privetts
  11. privie

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