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oliven — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • olive noun A small oval fruit, usually eaten pickled or pressed for its oil, that grows on a Mediterranean tree.

Senses

oliven is used for these senses in English:

  • olive The small oval fruit of this tree, eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green).

olive — full definition

  1. noun A small oval fruit, usually eaten pickled or pressed for its oil, that grows on a Mediterranean tree.
  2. noun The tree itself, cultivated for thousands of years around the Mediterranean.
  3. adj A dull, yellowish-green colour, like an unripe olive.