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   ibolium privet
         n 1: fast-growing and tightly branched hybrid of Ligustrum
               ovalifolium and Ligustrum obtusifolium [syn: {ibolium
               privet}, {ibota privet}, {Ligustrum ibolium}]

English Dictionary: ibolium privet by the DICT Development Group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      Note: Two or three hundred varieties of plums derived from
               the {Prunus domestica} are described; among them the
               {greengage}, the {Orleans}, the {purple gage}, or
               {Reine Claude Violette}, and the {German prune}, are
               some of the best known.
  
      Note: Among the true plums are;
  
      {Beach plum}, the {Prunus maritima}, and its crimson or
            purple globular drupes,
  
      {Bullace plum}. See {Bullace}.
  
      {Chickasaw plum}, the American {Prunus Chicasa}, and its
            round red drupes.
  
      {Orleans plum}, a dark reddish purple plum of medium size,
            much grown in England for sale in the markets.
  
      {Wild plum of America}, {Prunus Americana}, with red or
            yellow fruit, the original of the {Iowa plum} and several
            other varieties. Among plants called plum, but of other
            genera than {Prunus}, are;
  
      {Australian plum}, {Cargillia arborea} and {C. australis}, of
            the same family with the persimmon.
  
      {Blood plum}, the West African {H[91]matostaphes Barteri}.
  
      {Cocoa plum}, the Spanish nectarine. See under {Nectarine}.
           
  
      {Date plum}. See under {Date}.
  
      {Gingerbread plum}, the West African {Parinarium
            macrophyllum}.
  
      {Gopher plum}, the Ogeechee lime.
  
      {Gray plum}, {Guinea plum}. See under {Guinea}.
  
      {Indian plum}, several species of {Flacourtia}.
  
      2. A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.
  
      3. A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant
            language, the sum of [9c]100,000 sterling; also, the
            person possessing it.
  
      {Plum bird}, {Plum budder} (Zo[94]l.), the European
            bullfinch.
  
      {Plum gouger} (Zo[94]l.), a weevil, or curculio ({Coccotorus
            scutellaris}), which destroys plums. It makes round holes
            in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva
            bores into the stone and eats the kernel.
  
      {Plum weevil} (Zo[94]l.), an American weevil which is very
            destructive to plums, nectarines cherries, and many other
            stone fruits. It lays its eggs in crescent-shaped
            incisions made with its jaws. The larva lives upon the
            pulp around the stone. Called also {turk}, and {plum
            curculio}. See Illust. under {Curculio}.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Ivyland, PA (borough, FIPS 37304)
      Location: 40.20810 N, 75.07292 W
      Population (1990): 490 (192 housing units)
      Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Ibleam
      people-waster, a city assigned to Manasseh (Josh. 17:11), from
      which the Israelites, however, could not expel the Canaanites
      (Judg. 1:27). It is also called Bileam (1 Chr. 6:70). It was
      probably the modern Jelamah, a village 2 1/2 miles north of
      Jenin.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Ibleam, ancient people; people decreasing
  
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