privet hedge
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈprɪvɪt hɛdʒ/
:
seto de aligustre
- The children played hide and seek behind the tall privet hedge that surrounded their grandmother's backyard.
Examples
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She trimmed the privet hedge carefully to maintain its neat shape and ensure the garden looked tidy.
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They sold the big shingled house on the beach, where we spent our summers as children, and moved to this smaller one behind high privet hedges.
Fiction book (1991) -
It was right here and there was a huge privet hedge around the whole thing.
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From these original plants came all of the privet hedges in the southeastern United States.
Academic text (2015) -
It was smack dab in the middle of this bed with a huge chunky privet hedge that actually came out.
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Perhaps the first new plant the Berckmanses distributed was the Amur privet hedge (Ligustrum amurense).
Academic text (2015) -
Clustered by Mrs. O'Shane's porch and along Peterson's untrimmed privet hedge lurked the shadow things.
Fiction book (1997) -
The landscape is a little overgrown, and the flora is mostly the kind of stuff they don't use much anymore, such as forsythia, pussy willow, and privet hedges.
Fiction book (1998) -
Mr. Crocus, her neighbor on the side with only a naked privet hedge, came out into his own postage stamp of a backyard to walk his hateful yippy dog, Felicia.
Fiction book (1993) -
The garden was beautifully lined with a privet hedge that provided the perfect boundary between the yard and the sidewalk.
Synonyms
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2.0
A row of closely planted bushes that forms a low natural fence
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5.9
A row of bushes planted close together that makes a low fence between fields or beside a road
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a hedge made from privet bushes' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'privet' (a shrub species) with 'hedge' (a planted row of shrubs). This straightforward noun+noun composition follows common naming patterns (e.g. 'boxwood hedge') and is cross-linguistically predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Privet hedge is the name for a hedge made from the dense shrub privet. Gardeners plant these bushes close together to make a living fence or screen for 'privacy' and to mark a garden 'boundary', so the phrase means a hedge of privet used as a screen or fence.