CHINESE PRIVET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chinese privet mean? 

• CHINESE PRIVET (noun)
  The noun CHINESE PRIVET has 1 sense:

1. erect evergreen treelike shrub of China and Korea and Japan having acuminate leaves and flowers in long erect panicles; resembles Japanese privet

  Familiarity information: CHINESE PRIVET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHINESE PRIVET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Erect evergreen treelike shrub of China and Korea and Japan having acuminate leaves and flowers in long erect panicles; resembles Japanese privet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Chinese privet; Ligustrum lucidum; white wax tree

Hypernyms ("Chinese privet" is a kind of...):

privet (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)