queen olive

American  

noun

1. any large, meaty olive suitable for pickling or processing.

2. such an olive grown especially in the area of Seville, Spain.

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queen olive British  

noun

1. a variety of olive having large fleshy fruit suitable for pickling, esp one from around Seville in Spain

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Etymology

Origin of queen olive

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

This may come as a surprise to audiences who warmed to Breslin as bespectacled and adorable aspiring beauty pageant queen Olive Hoover in the 2006 film, "Little Miss Sunshine".

From Reuters

Just at the top of the spinal cord, where it passes into the skull and joins with the brain, it swells out into a sort of knob, about the size of a queen olive or the head of a gold-headed cane, which is known as the medulla, or "pith."

From Project Gutenberg