英语词汇“olivenite”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

olive /olˈiv/

noun

A tree (Olea europaea) cultivated round the Mediterranean for its oily fruit

Extended to many more or less similar trees

The small oval stoned fruit of the olive tree, yellowish-green when unripe, ripening to a shiny black, with bitter-tasting flesh

A colour like the unripe olive

A person of olive-coloured complexion

An olive-shaped or oval object of various kinds

The wood of an olive tree

Peace, of which the olive-leaf or branch was the emblem

A gastropod mollusc (genus Oliva) of warm seas with an olive-shaped shell

A small rolled and stuffed piece of meat, as in beef olive

adjective

Of a yellowish-green colour like the olive

ORIGIN: Fr, from L olīva

olivāˈceous adjective

Olive-coloured

Olive-green

olˈivary adjective

Olive-shaped

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

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

olive drab noun

The olive green of American military uniforms

olive-drabˈ adjective

olive green noun

A dull dark yellowish green

olive-greenˈ adjective

olive oil noun

Oil pressed from the fruit of the olive

olˈive-shell noun

The shell of the mollusc Oliva

olˈive-yard noun

A piece of ground on which olives are grown

olˈivine-rock noun

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