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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 fruit
Familiarity information: WILD OLIVE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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