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Olea

noun

evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits

• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Oleaceae, ↑family Oleaceae, ↑olive family

• Member Meronyms:

↑olive tree, ↑olive, ↑European olive tree, ↑Olea europaea, ↑black maire, ↑Olea cunninghamii, ↑white maire, ↑Olea lanceolata

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I. \\ˈōlēə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, olive tree, olive, from Greek elaia — more at olive

: a genus (the type of the family Oleaceae) of trees or shrubs having simple entire leaves, axillary flowers with induplicate calyx lobes, and oily drupaceous fruit — see maire, olive

II.

plural of oleum

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Olea /ōˈli-ə/

noun

The olive genus, giving name to the family Oleāˈceae, including ash, privet and jasmine

ORIGIN: L olea olive

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oleāˈceous adjective

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olea

obs. f. olio; var. olla¹, pot, stew.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.