| Ligustrin | n. (Chem.) A bitter principle found in the bark of the privet (Ligustrum vulgare), and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a warm, bitter taste; -- called also |
| maleberry | (n) deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers, Syn. male berry, Lyonia ligustrina, he-huckleberry, privet andromeda |