wild olive

noun

1. any tree resembling the olive in structure or fruit.

wild olive

noun

1. any of various trees or shrubs that resemble the olive tree or bear olive-like fruits, esp the oleaster

Word History and Origins

Origin of wild olive¹

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

The stone-pine and wild-olive are perhaps the only trees found growing in a natural state.

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Somewhere along the line of this great thoroughfare the wild olive was domesticated, improved, and transformed.

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See the 1873 edition of the "Crown of Wild Olive," p. 30, § 27.

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But there will be no meetings at the wild olive between you and me.

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They trembled, they swayed; they swayed as the wild olive swayed in the wind of the night.

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