olive
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- noun
- /ˈɑːlɪv/
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olivo
- Yes, you can grow lemon, avocado, olive or fig trees.
- olive trees
- an olive tree
- an olive orchard
Yes, you can grow lemon, avocado, olive or fig trees.
- Yes, you can grow lemon, avocado, olive or fig trees.
- From the balcony where we eat breakfast, we see olive Groves cling to the gentle hills and the distance.
- You've, you've extended a huge olive branch here conditionally.
Examples
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Many lavender fields, together with olive groves and orchards, lay neglected and abandoned.
Academic text (1993) -
The old olive tree in the garden produced the best olives for our salads.
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Yeah, your olive oil's about to go bad.
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Do you really miss your father's olive trees?
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We'll join you later in the olive grove.
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I took a long walk somewhere beyond the olive groves.
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Mack was planting Russian olives around the borders of his two hundred acres.
Fiction book (1999) -
Hana appears at the edge of the olive groves and hurries towards Kip, who hasn't moved.
Fiction book (1996) -
Wheat fields glowed in the sun, with olive Groves and vineyards receding into the distant foothills of a low mountain range called Les Alpil.
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THE SHRIKE LIVES IN LIGHTLY WOODED COUNTRY, OLIVE GROVES, AND GARDENS.
Synonyms
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A small tree that keeps its leaves all year and makes olives for food and oil
An evergreen tree that produces olives used for food and oil
An evergreen tree that grows in the Mediterranean and produces olives for food and oil
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A coastal tree with fragrant leaves, small clusters of creamy flowers, and olive-like fruit
A small tree from the southern United States that has white flowers and dark purple fruit
An evergreen tree that grows in the Mediterranean and produces olives for food and oil
A small tree or bush with silvery leaves, small yellow fruits, and sometimes thorns
- Specialized
A small sea turtle with an olive-colored shell that often nests in large groups on beaches
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Etymology
Olive The tree name olive comes from Latin oliva and Greek elaia, words people used in the Mediterranean for the long-living tree that gives olives and olive oil, so 'olive' also names the tree itself.