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Definition of Oleaster
1. Noun. Any of several shrubs of the genus Elaeagnus having silver-white twigs and yellow flowers followed by olivelike fruits.
Specialized synonyms: Elaeagnus Latifolia, Wild Olive, Elaeagnus Commutata, Silver Berry, Silver-bush, Silverberry, Silverbush, Elaeagnus Augustifolia, Russian Olive, Silver Berry
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Definition of Oleaster
1. n. The wild olive tree (Olea Europea, var. sylvestris).
Definition of Oleaster
1. Noun. A plant in the genus ''Elaeagnus'', especially ''Elaeagnus angustifolia. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oleaster
1. a flowering shrub [n -S]
Medical Definition of Oleaster
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Oleaster
Literary usage of Oleaster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"oleaster. Tall shrub or small tree, often spiny, cult, from the Old World for
the whiteness of its cottony shoots and under surfaces of the ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"oleaster FAMILY. Shrubs or trees, mostly silvery-scaly, or stellate-pubescent,
with entire alternate or opposite leaves, and perfect polygamous or dioecious ..."
3. An Encyclopaedia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1869)
"BA'GNUS, oleaster, or WILD Ours TREE. Lin. Syst. ... oleaster is a Latin word,
which is interpreted a wild olive ..."
4. An Encyclopædia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1869)
"Stamens 8. GENUS I. .EL^EA'GNUS Tourn. THE EL/EA'ONUS, oleaster, ... oleaster is
a Latin word, which it interpreted a wild olive tree; and perhaps it is ..."
5. Forestry in Minnesota by Samuel Bowdlear Green, Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota (1902)
"The varieties of the broad-leaved European Linden (T. Platyphyllos) have failed
in this section. ELAEAGNACEAE. oleaster FAMILY. ..."
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