olive /olˈiv/

1. A tree (Olea europaea) cultivated round the Mediterranean for its oily fruit
2. Extended to many more or less similar trees
3. The small oval stoned fruit of the olive tree, yellowish-green when unripe, ripening to a shiny black, with bitter-tasting flesh
4. A colour like the unripe olive
5. A person of olive-coloured complexion
6. An olive-shaped or oval object of various kinds
7. The wood of an olive tree
8. Peace, of which the olive-leaf or branch was the emblem
9. A gastropod mollusc (genus Oliva) of warm seas with an olive-shaped shell
10. A small rolled and stuffed piece of meat, as in beef olive

Of a yellowish-green colour like the olive

olivāˈceous adjective

1. Olive-coloured
2. Olive-green

olˈivary adjective

1. Olive-shaped
2. Of or relating to two masses of tissue (the olivary bodies) situated on the medulla oblongata

olivenite /ō-livˈə-nīt or olˈiv-/ noun

A mineral, hydrated copper arsenate, often olive-coloured

olˈivet noun

1. An olive-shaped button
2. An oval mock-pearl used in trade with primitive peoples in Africa

olivine /olˈiv-ēn/ noun

An orthorhombic rock-forming mineral, silicate of iron and magnesium, often olive-green, often found, altered (qv under alter¹), as serpentine

oˈlive-back noun

A N American forest thrush (Hylocichla ustulata)

olive branch noun

1. A branch of an olive tree as a symbol of peace
2. Something which shows a desire for peace or reconciliation
3. A child (Psalm 128.3; Prayer Book)

olive drab noun

The olive green of American military uniforms

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