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- Dictionaryolive/ˈɒlɪv/
noun
- 1. 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"
- 2. the small evergreen tree which produces olives and which has narrow leaves with silvery undersides, native to warm regions of the Old World.
adjective
- 1. greyish-green: "a small figure in olive fatigues"
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