Wild olive
noun
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Noun
- 1 Any of several species resembling a typical olive tree from plant families some of which are only very distantly related.; Bontia daphnoides (family Scrophulariaceae; bastard olive)
- 2 erect shrub or climber of India and China with red olivelike fruit wordnet
- 3 Any of several species resembling a typical olive tree from plant families some of which are only very distantly related.; Several species in the genus Elaeagnus (family Elaeagnaceae); Elaeagnus angustifolia (silver berry, oleaster, Persian olive)
- 4 Any of several species resembling a typical olive tree from plant families some of which are only very distantly related.; Several species in the genus Elaeagnus (family Elaeagnaceae); Elaeagnus latifolia (oleaster)
- 5 Any of several species resembling a typical olive tree from plant families some of which are only very distantly related.; Halesia carolina (family Styracaceae; Carolina silverbell, little silverbell)
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- 6 Any of several species resembling a typical olive tree from plant families some of which are only very distantly related.; Nyssa aquatica, an American swamp-growing tree (family Cornaceae; water tupelo)
- 7 Any of several species resembling a typical olive tree from plant families some of which are only very distantly related.; Subspecies of Olea europea, which includes the cultivated olive (family Oleaceae); Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata
- 8 Any of several species resembling a typical olive tree from plant families some of which are only very distantly related.; Subspecies of Olea europea, which includes the cultivated olive (family Oleaceae); Olea europaea subsp. europaea (syn. Olea oleaster)
- 9 Any of several species resembling a typical olive tree from plant families some of which are only very distantly related.; Cartrema americana (syn. Osmanthus americanus; devilwood, American olive; family Elaeagnaceae)