olive : Idioms & Phrases

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american olive

  • noun small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits
    devilwood; Osmanthus americanus.
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black olive

  • noun olives picked ripe and cured in brine then dried or pickled or preserved canned or in oil
    black olive.
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Bohemian olive

  • (Bot.), a species of Elæagnus (E. angustifolia), the flowers of which are sometimes used in Southern Europe as a remedy for fevers.
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california olive

  • noun Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood
    sassafras laurel; pepperwood; Umbellularia californica; California bay tree; California laurel; Oregon myrtle; mountain laurel; spice tree.
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desert olive

  • noun spiny branching deciduous shrub of southwestern United States having clusters of insignificant yellow-white flowers appearing before leaves followed by attractive black berrylike fruits
    Forestiera neomexicana; tanglebush.
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european olive tree

  • noun evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits
    olive; Olea europaea.
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green olive

  • noun olives picked green and pickled in brine; infrequently stuffed with e.g. pimento
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java olives

  • noun large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food
    Sterculia foetida; kalumpang.
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Olive branch

  • noun something offered to an adversary in the hope of obtaining peace
    peace offering.
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  • . (a) A branch of the olive tree, considered an emblem of peace . (b) Fig.: A child.
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Olive brown

  • noun a shade of brown tinged with green
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  • brown with a tinge of green.
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olive drab

  • noun a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
    drab.
  • noun military uniform of the United States Army; made from cloth of a dull olive color
    olive drab.
  • noun a cloth of an olive-brown color used for military uniforms
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olive family

  • noun trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits; sometimes placed in the order Oleales: olive; ash; jasmine; privet; lilac
    Oleaceae; family Oleaceae.
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Olive green

  • noun a color that is lighter and greener than olive
    olive green.
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  • a dark brownish green, like the color of the olive.
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Olive oil

  • noun oil from olives
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  • an oil expressed from the ripe fruit of the olive, and much used as a salad oil, also in medicine and the arts.
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Olive ore

  • (Min.), olivenite.
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olive ridley

  • noun olive-colored sea turtle of tropical Pacific and Indian and the southern Atlantic oceans
    Pacific ridley; Lepidochelys olivacea.
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olive tree

  • noun a tree of the genus Olea cultivated for its fruit
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olive-brown

  • adjective satellite of a brown color with a greenish tinge
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olive-colored

  • adjective satellite having the color of green olives
    olive-colored.
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olive-coloured

  • adjective satellite having the color of green olives
    olive-colored.
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olive-drab

  • adjective satellite of a light brownish green color
    drab.
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olive-drab uniform

  • noun military uniform of the United States Army; made from cloth of a dull olive color
    olive drab.
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olive-gray

  • adjective satellite of grey tinged with olive
    olive-gray.
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olive-green

  • noun a color that is lighter and greener than olive
    olive green.
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olive-grey

  • adjective satellite of grey tinged with olive
    olive-gray.
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olive-like

  • adjective satellite resembling an olive
    olivelike.
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olive-sized

  • adjective satellite about the size of an olive
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olive-tree agaric

  • noun red luminescent mushroom of Europe
    Pleurotus phosphoreus.
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ripe olive

  • noun olives picked ripe and cured in brine then dried or pickled or preserved canned or in oil
    black olive.
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russian olive

  • noun deciduous shrubby tree of Europe and western Asia having grey leaves and small yellow fruits covered in silvery scales; sometimes spiny
    silver berry; Elaeagnus augustifolia.
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Spurge olive

  • an evergreen shrub (Daphne oleoides) found in the Mediterranean region.
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Wild olive

  • noun erect shrub or climber of India and China with red olivelike fruit
    Elaeagnus latifolia.
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  • (Bot.), a name given to the oleaster or wild stock of the olive; also variously to several trees more or less resembling the olive.
Webster 1913