olive

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A widely cultivated evergreen tree (Olea europaea) native to the Mediterranean region, having fragrant white flowers, gray-green lance-shaped leathery leaves, and edible fruit with oil-rich flesh surrounding a hard stone.
• noun The small oval fruit of this tree, usually changing in color from green to black as it ripens, used for food and as a source of oil.
• noun Any of various similar or related plants, such as the Russian olive.
• noun A yellow green of low to medium lightness and low to moderate saturation.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Elæocarpus cyaneus. Compare olive-nut.
• noun Notelæa ovata. See dunga-runga and Notelæa.
• noun The Queensland olive, Olea paniculata. See marblewood, 2.
• noun The oil-tree, Olea Europæa, cultivated from the earliest times in Syria and Palestine, and thence in remote antiquity distributed throughout the whole Mediterranean region: in recent times it has been successfully planted in Australia, southern California, and elsewhere.
• noun The fruit of the common olive-tree, a small ellipsoid drupe (the “berry”), bluish-black in color when fully ripe.
• noun A tree of some other species of Olea, or of some other genus resembling the olive. See Olea, and phrases below.
• noun The color of the unripe olive; a color composed of yellow, black, red, and white in such proportions as to form a low-toned dull green, slightly yellow.
• noun Same as oliva, 1.
• noun A perforated plate in the strap of a satchel or traveling-bag, through which the stud or button passes to fasten it.
• noun A long oval button over which loops of braid are passed as a fastening for cloaks, etc.
• noun In anatomy, the olivary body of the medulla oblongata.
• noun In conchology, an olive-shell.
• noun In ornithology, the oyster-catcher, Hæmatopus ostrilegus.
• noun One of various trees of other genera: in Europe, Elæagnus angustifolia, Rhus Cotinus, and Thymelæa Sanamunda (Daphne Thymelæa); in the West Indies, Bontia daphnoides, Ximenia Americana, Terminalia Buceras, and T. capitata; in India, Putranjiva Roxburghii.
• Relating to the olive; of the color of the unripe olive; olivaceous; of a dull, somewhat yellowish green: also, of the color of the olive-tree, which in general effect is of a dull ashen-green, with distinctly silvery shading.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Approaching the color of the olive; of a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.
• noun A tree (Olea Europæa) 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.
• noun 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.
• noun Prov. Eng., Prov. Eng. Any shell of the genus Oliva and allied genera; -- so called from the form. See Oliva.
• noun Prov. Eng. The oyster catcher.
• noun The color of the olive, a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.
• noun One of the tertiary colors, composed of violet and green mixed in equal strength and proportion.
• noun (Anat.) An olivary body. See under Olivary.
• noun (Cookery) A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked.
• noun (Bot.) a species of Elæagnus (Elæagnus angustifolia), the flowers of which are sometimes used in Southern Europe as a remedy for fevers.
• noun (Fig.) A child.
• noun to offer to make peace (with a rival or enemy).
• noun brown with a tinge of green.
• noun a dark brownish green, like the color of the olive.
• noun an oil expressed from the ripe fruit of the olive, and much used as a salad oil, also in medicine and the arts.
• noun (Min.) olivenite.
• noun (Bot.) a name given to the oleaster or wild stock of the olive; also variously to several trees more or less resembling the olive.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun An evergreen tree, Olea europaea, cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.
• noun The small oval fruit of this tree, eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green).
• noun The wood of the olive tree.
• noun A dark yellowish-green color, that of an unripe olive.
• noun anatomy An olivary body, part of the medulla oblongata.
• noun A component of a plumbing compression joint; a ring which is placed between the nut and the pipe and compressed during fastening to provide a seal.
• adjective Of a grayish green color, that of an unripe olive.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits
• noun one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish
• noun hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork