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WILD OLIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wild olive mean? 

WILD OLIVE (noun)
  The noun WILD OLIVE has 1 sense:

1. erect shrub or climber of India and China with red olivelike fruitplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


WILD OLIVE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Erect shrub or climber of India and China with red olivelike fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Elaeagnus latifolia; wild olive

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

oleaster (any of several shrubs of the genus Elaeagnus having silver-white twigs and yellow flowers followed by olivelike fruits)


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