green olive
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- noun
- /ɡrin ˈɑlɪv/
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- Yep, I've never been a fan of green olives, but I tried several types for this post and finally found one that I liked.
- a cup of green olives
- pit green olives
- stuffed green olives
I'd say about once a month there's a day where I just eat an entire pint container of green olives and crackers and popcorn.
- I'd say about once a month there's a day where I just eat an entire pint container of green olives and crackers and popcorn.
- Sometimes I'll chop up a little veggie Italian sausage, put that on there, maybe some green olives, bake that for a little bit, put some nutritional yeast on that.
Examples
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A classic martini is often garnished with a green olive for added flavor.
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1 and 1/2 cups green olives
Blog text (4) -
They form a straight line down the bar, each with a giant green olive in it.
Fiction book (1990) -
I'd say about once a month there's a day where I just eat an entire pint container of green olives and crackers and popcorn.
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We've also got some green olives for the tuna pasta and then loads of these suckies yogurts which Caleb and Jackson really, really like.
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Sometimes I'll chop up a little veggie Italian sausage, put that on there, maybe some green olives, bake that for a little bit, put some nutritional yeast on that.
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Nathan walked from the bowl of black olives to the bowl of green olives, to the tray of cheese and crackers, and to the bowls of baby corn and tiny gherkins, thinking his thoughts and taking a sample at each stop.
Fiction book (1999) -
At the party, we served a platter of green olives alongside various cheeses.
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She loves to add green olives to her pasta salad for a tangy twist.
Synonyms
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A small oval fruit, green or black, from a tree used for food and oil
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Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'green' (not ripe) with 'olive' (the fruit); a B1 learner who knows both words will infer an unripe olive, typically the variety pickled or eaten as a snack. This adjective+noun composition is a regular, cross-linguistic pattern and therefore easily understood from its parts.
Etymology
The noun green olive comes from the simple image of an olive picked before it ripens so it stays green, then kept in salty water to add taste. That's why a green olive today means an unripe, preserved olive often used as a 'snack' or a 'garnish'.