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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 food
Familiarity information: JAVA OLIVES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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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