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PRIVET , in See also:botany, the See also:vernacular name of Ligustrum,'a genus of Oleaceae, containing about See also:thirty-five See also:species, natives
' Other vernacular names for the See also:common species are See also:prim, primprint, primwort and See also:primrose.
of temperate and tropical See also:Asia; only the common privet is a native of See also:Europe. They are shrubs or See also:low trees with See also:evergreen or nearly evergreen opposite entire leaves, and dense clusters of small, See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white, tubular four-parted See also:flowers, enclosing two stamens and succeeded by small, globular, usually See also:black berries, each with a single pendulous See also:seed. The best-known species is the common See also:European privet, L. vulgare, which makes See also:good hedges; L. ovalifolium (a native of See also:Japan) thrives by the seaside and even in towns; there is a yellow-leaved variety (See also:var. variegatum), the leaves becoming white as they get older. L. lucidum (See also:China) is taller and handsomer. There are numerous varieties of L. vulgare in cultivation; var. buxifolium has broader and more persistent leaves; var. fructu-luteum has See also:bright yellow See also:fruit; var. pendulum has See also:long weeping branches; and var. variegatum has the leaves variegated with bright yellow. L. japonicum, L. Massalongianum (Khassia Hills) and other species are also cultivated. See also:Mock-privet is Phillyrea, a member of the same See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order and a small genus of ornamental See also:hardy evergreen shrubs, natives of the Mediterranean region and Asia See also:Minor.
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