Olive
Meaning of Olive
noun
- a small oval fruit with a hard stone and bitter flesh, green when unripe and bluish black when ripe, used as food and as a source of oil.
a dish of cauliflower with black olives
a cucumber and olive salad
- the small evergreen tree which produces olives and which has narrow leaves with silvery undersides, native to warm regions of the Old World.
- a greyish-green colour like that of an unripe olive.
shades of gold, olive, and black
- a slice of beef or veal made into a roll with stuffing inside and stewed.
- a marine mollusc with a smooth, roughly cylindrical shell which is typically brightly coloured.
- each of a pair of smooth, oval swellings in the medulla oblongata.
- a metal ring or fitting which is tightened under a threaded nut to form a seal, as in a compression joint.
- greyish-green.
a small figure in olive fatigues
Middle English: via Old French from Latin oliva, from Greek elaia, from elaion ‘oil’.
Information about Olive
Hyphenation of Olive
Olive
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- Olive is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Anagrams of Olive
Words that rhyme with Olive
live, alive, realive, unalive, blive, Clive, clive, declive, proclive, belive, forelive, relive, enlive, nonlive, unlive, Palmolive, olive, solive, subolive, forlive, overlive, underlive, dislive, mislive, slive, outlive, bylive
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