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olive-sized

olive-sized

3.7
About the size of an olive
  • adjective
  • /ˈɑːlɪv saɪzd/
translation icon : del tamaño de una oliva
  • It held within its spiny branches three green, olive-sized fruits.

Examples

  • The gardener picked an olive-sized fruit from the tree to taste its flavor.

  • The first was to give thanks for the apparently miraculous disappearance of the olive-sized lump in my friend's breast.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • She noticed an olive-sized bead of sweat rolling down her forehead during the workout.

  • The recipe called for an olive-sized portion of butter to enrich the sauce.

How Big

thumb-sized
1 2.2
olive-sized
3.7

Surface Forms

olive-sized positive

Morphology

olive-sized = olive (transparent) = olive + sized

A productive and regular formation meaning 'of the size of an olive' (similar to 'pea-sized' or 'grape-sized'); readily inferable by learners.

Etymology

Olive-sized joins olive (the small fruit) and -sized to mean 'about the same size as an olive'. Picture an olive to remember the exact small size.