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Olive

ˈɒlɪv

Olive definitions

noun

Inflections:

olive olives

a small oval fruit with a hard stone and bitter flesh, green when unripe and bluish black when ripe, used as food and as a source of oil

"a dish of cauliflower with black olives"
the small evergreen tree which produces olives and which has narrow leaves with silvery undersides, native to warm regions of the Old World
- used in names of other trees which are related to the olive, resemble it, or bear similar fruit, e.g. Russian olive
a greyish-green colour like that of an unripe olive

"shades of gold, olive, and black"

Synonyms:
greenish viridescent
a slice of beef or veal made into a roll with stuffing inside and stewed
a marine mollusc with a smooth, roughly cylindrical shell which is typically brightly coloured
each of a pair of smooth, oval swellings in the medulla oblongata
a metal ring or fitting which is tightened under a threaded nut to form a seal, as in a compression joint

adjective

Inflections:

olive