OLEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Olea mean? 

• OLEA (noun)
  The noun OLEA has 1 sense:

1. evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits

  Familiarity information: OLEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Olea; Olea

Hypernyms ("Olea" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Olea"):

olive tree (a tree of the genus Olea cultivated for its fruit)

European olive tree; Olea europaea; olive (evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits)

black maire; Olea cunninghamii (northern Zealand tree having dense hard light-brown wood)

Olea lanceolata; white maire (small New Zealand tree having red pulpy one-seeded fruit)

Holonyms ("Olea" is a member of...):

family Oleaceae; Oleaceae; olive family (trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits; sometimes placed in the order Oleales: olive; ash; jasmine; privet; lilac)

 Context examples 

Nicolás Olea, Professor of Radiology and Physical Medicine at the UGR and a doctor at the San Cecilio Hospital, is the main author of this study.

(Babies in neonatal intensive care units are exposed to harmful chemical substances found in plastic, University of Granada)

We can recognize this kind of paper because it instantly turns black if we put it close to a heat source like, for example, a match, the lead authors of this study Nicolás Olea, professor of Medicine at the University of Granada (UGR), and José Manuel Molina from the ibs.

(Purchase receipts with easily erasable ink contain cancer- and infertility inducing substances, University of Granada)

But this species, Olea hensoni, has gone rogue, joining two other sacoglossan species – Olea hansineensis in the northeast Pacific Ocean and Calliopaea bellula in the Mediterranean Sea – that abandoned a diet of seaweed to prey on the eggs of their fellow slugs and snails.

(New sea slug species discovered near condominiums of Florida’s Cedar Key, National Science Foundation)