small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil
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evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits
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hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork
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one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish
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a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation
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of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive
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Olive \Ol"ive\, n. [F., fr. L. oliva, akin to Gr. ?. See {Oil}.] 1. (Bot.) (a) A tree ({Olea Europ[ae]a}) with small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivated for its fruit for thousands of years, and its branches are the emblems of peace. The wood is yellowish brown and beautifully variegated. (b) The fruit of the olive. It has been much improved by cultivation, and is used for making pickles. Olive oil is pressed from its flesh.
2. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any shell of the genus {Oliva} and allied genera; -- so called from the form. See {Oliva}. (b) The oyster catcher. [Prov. Eng.]
3. (a) The color of the olive, a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green. (b) One of the tertiary colors, composed of violet and green mixed in equal strength and proportion.
4. (Anat.) An olivary body. See under {Olivary}.
5. (Cookery) A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked; as, olives of beef or veal.
Note: Olive is sometimes used adjectively and in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, olive brown, olive green, olive-colored, olive-skinned, olive crown, olive garden, olive tree, olive yard, etc.
{Bohemian olive} (Bot.), a species of {El[ae]agnus} ({El[ae]agnus angustifolia}), the flowers of which are sometimes used in Southern Europe as a remedy for fevers.
{Olive branch}. (a) A branch of the olive tree, considered an emblem of peace. (b) (Fig.): A child.
{to hold out an olive branch}, to offer to make peace (with a rival or enemy).
{Olive brown}, brown with a tinge of green.
{Olive green}, a dark brownish green, like the color of the olive.
{Olive oil}, an oil expressed from the ripe fruit of the olive, and much used as a salad oil, also in medicine and the arts.
{Olive ore} (Min.), olivenite.
{Wild olive} (Bot.), a name given to the oleaster or wild stock of the olive; also variously to several trees more or less resembling the olive. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Olive \Ol"ive\, a. Approaching the color of the olive; of a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.
Olivary \Ol"i*va*ry\, a. [L. olivarius belonging to olives, fr. oliva an olive: cf. F. olivaire.] (Anat.) Like an olive.
{Olivary body} (Anat.), an oval prominence on each side of the medulla oblongata; -- called also {olive}.
colorful \colorful\ adj. 1. having striking color. Opposite of {colorless}.
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate). [WordNet 1.5]
Japan joined it in 1980, but reserved the right to continue importing products made out of hawkbill and olive ridley catches.
An olive will just make your cocktail oily. I emerged from the tasting slightly light-headed and not wholly convinced that I had really got to the bottom of the martini debate.
The most visually stunning finds are the olive oil works, where giant stone crushers, weights and storage chambers are virtually undamaged.
It claims over 24 per cent of the L370bn US olive oil market and substantial presences in France and Spain for processed tomato products. In replies to Consob, IRI and SME both denied negotiations on the sale of all or part of the group.
Hajeh had been accused of collaborating with the Israeli authorities in helping to raze olive groves and recruiting Palestinians for Israeli intellience, sources in Nablus said.
People were told it was cut-rate olive oil, but it was actually rapeseed oil processed for industrial use, not human consumption.
Police said the other car bomb exploded at 1:30 a.m. in an olive green Mercedes near a Syrian checkpoint in the village of Saadnayel, 24 miles east of Beirut in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley.
Walesa, who will face Tyminski in a runoff Dec. 9, met the press in a packed conference room in Gdansk and extended an olive branch to supporters of Mazowiecki, his vanquished rival within Solidarity.
Bush said an improvement in relations "is going to take a change in behavior." "I don't see so far any sign of change," he said, adding that he had "held out the olive branch" in his inaugural speech on Jan. 20.
The company also claimed to have studies showing that poor farming techniques were responsible for the shrinking olive harvests. Last week, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the olive growers.
The company also claimed to have studies showing that poor farming techniques were responsible for the shrinking olive harvests. Last week, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the olive growers.
Studies suggest the monosaturates, particularly olive oil, actually reduce levels of cholesterol in the blood.
Younger generations seem hardly more cheerful - in browns and greys and olive drabs, in khaki pith helmets and worn-out military surplus wear they go their sombre way.
By creating the basket system, Fidelity is extending an olive branch to the active fund switchers.
As it has for a thousand years, life in Siwa begins before dawn with the muezzim calling Moslems to prayer from minarets of mosques scattered through the oasis' date palms and olive groves.
After the two-day meeting ended, the Politburo maintained a public unity that offered firm support for the policies of the past but offered an olive branch to a growing movement for reform.
Elpidio Marcelino Lopez cut the lights of his red, three-wheeled dune cycle amd skimmed over the dark sand in friendly pursuit of olive ridley sea turtles.
Marinade the chicken for up to five days in olive oil and herbs.
IT WAS TO have been a simple yet greedy feast a deux: asparagus to start, followed by wild salmon tails dressed with an olive oil variation on beurre noir, then soft goat's cheese with oatcakes or soda bread, and fresh cherries and apricots to finish.
Mediterranean products such as wine, olive oil and fruit and vegetables are an area where Italy seeks a favourable response before accepting Blair House.
The fat is rendered to become a cooking medium as fundamental to Gascony as butter is to Normandy and olive oil to Provence. Legs, wings and giblets go to make confits.
The olive branch, an ancient symbol of peace, will be prominently incorporated in the design of the new National Peace Garden proposed for the nation's capital.
Her transgression: an occasional olive or avocado.
Season them with sea salt, pepper and a good squeeze of lemon and toss them in enough olive oil to make the shells glisten all over.
Instead they sought to isolate the FIS and arrest its leadership, while holding out an olive branch to those within the movement anxious not to see the country destabilised.
Mrs. Child's "Broccoli a la Bush" involves blanching cut broccoli, then sauteing it in olive oil and garlic.
Forest fires this summer, often started by the security forces to flush out Islamic groups, have caused extensive damage, especially to olive groves in eastern Algeria.
Dorelli thought this went back to the film MASH, where one of the characters is offered an olive-less martini and exclaims: 'What no olive?
'The Tunisians are saying to Europe, open up your olive oil market, and the Europeans are saying open up all the rest of your markets first.
The state monopoly on olive oil sales was abolished last year.