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JAVA OLIVES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Java olives mean? 

JAVA OLIVES (noun)
  The noun JAVA OLIVES has 1 sense:

1. large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as foodplay

  Familiarity information: JAVA OLIVES used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


JAVA OLIVES (noun)


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Meaning:

Large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Java olives; kalumpang; Sterculia foetida

Hypernyms ("Java olives" is a kind of...):

sterculia (any tree of the genus Sterculia)


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