Definition of Olive tree

1. Noun. A tree of the genus Olea cultivated for its fruit.

Group relationships: Genus Olea, Olea
Terms within: Olive
Specialized synonyms: European Olive Tree, Olea Europaea, Olive, Black Maire, Olea Cunninghamii, Olea Lanceolata, White Maire
Generic synonyms: Fruit Tree

Definition of Olive tree

1. Noun. An evergreen tree, ''Olea europaea'', that produces olives as fruit. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Olive Tree

olive-like
olive-tipped catheter
olive-tree agaric
olive branch
olive branches
olive brown
olive drab
olive family
olive green
olive grove
olive groves
olive juice
olive oil
olive oils
olive ridley
olive tree
olive trees
olived
olivegrower
olivegrowing
oliveless
olivelike
oliveness
olivenite
olivenites
olivers
olives
olivet
olivets

Literary usage of Olive tree

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"Box-leaved European Olive-tree ; Olivier à feuilles de buis, of the French, with oblong-ovate leaves, and divaricate branches. 6. ..."

2. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1890)
"Reddish olive tree. Olea colombaro.—A tree of middling size; it fears the frost; prefers a stony soil ... Pointed olive tree, known in France by the name of ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1832)
"Gum-resin of the olive tree. ... of Sebenico, states, that the gum-resin of the olive tree possesses purgative and tonic properties, and that he has used it ..."

4. Biennial Report by South Dakota, California State Board of Horticulture, State Athletic Commission (1890)
"The olive tree is essentially the tree of warm climates (it is said to originate ... It is the greatest calamity that can befall an olive tree, for it takes ..."

5. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1867)
"Behold an olive tree, its roots striking deep into the soil, its branches spreading luxuriantly ! For certain reasons some of the branches are cut off; ..."

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