Olive — meaning in English

English meaning

• olive noun A small oval fruit, usually eaten pickled or pressed for its oil, that grows on a Mediterranean tree.
• Olivia noun A female given name, ultimately from Latin, and one of the most popular girls' names in English-speaking countries today.

Senses

Olive is used for these senses in English:

• Olivia A city, the county seat of Renville County, Minnesota, United States, named for a female station agent named Olive.
• 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.

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