OLIVE TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does olive tree mean? 

• OLIVE TREE (noun)
  The noun OLIVE TREE has 1 sense:

1. a tree of the genus Olea cultivated for its fruit

  Familiarity information: OLIVE TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLIVE TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tree of the genus Olea cultivated for its fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("olive tree" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (substance of "olive tree"):

olive (hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "olive tree"):

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 ("olive tree" is a member of...):

genus Olea; Olea (evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits)

 Context examples 

Gnarled olive trees covered the hills with their dusky foliage, fruit hung golden in the orchard, and great scarlet anemones fringed the roadside, while beyond green slopes and craggy heights, the Maritime Alps rose sharp and white against the blue Italian sky.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)