'Olive' definitions:
Definition of 'olive'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive
noun
Small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil
noun
Evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits [syn: olive, European olive tree, Olea europaea]
noun
Hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork
noun
One-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish
noun
A yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation
Definition of 'olive'
From: GCIDE
- colorful \colorful\ adj.
- 1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
- Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot}; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing; prismatic; psychedelic; {red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled}]
- Syn: colourful. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious; flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; {flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty}; picturesque] [WordNet 1.5]
- 3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome.
- Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; {amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown}; amethyst; {auburn, reddish-brown}; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden; azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; {bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome}; {blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue}; {blushful, blush-colored, rosy}; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy; brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; {canary, canary-yellow}; caramel, caramel brown; carnation; chartreuse; chestnut; dun; {earth-colored, earthlike}; fuscous; {green, greenish, light-green, dark-green}; jade, jade-green; khaki; {lavender, lilac}; mauve; moss green, mosstone; {motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured}; mousy, mouse-colored; ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive; orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish; purple, violet, purplish; {red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet}; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red; rust, rusty, rust-colored; {snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown}; {sorrel, brownish-orange}; stone, stone-gray; {straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured}; tan; tangerine; tawny; ultramarine; umber; {vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red}; yellow, yellowish; yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; {blae bluish-black or gray-blue)}; coral; creamy; {cress green, cresson, watercress}; hazel; {honey, honey-colored}; hued(postnominal); magenta; maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green; sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark, light.]
- Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate). [WordNet 1.5]
Definition of 'Olive'
From: Easton
- Olive the fruit of the olive-tree. This tree yielded oil which was highly valued. The best oil was from olives that were plucked before being fully ripe, and then beaten or squeezed (Deut. 24:20; Isa. 17:6; 24:13). It was called "beaten," or "fresh oil" (Ex. 27:20). There were also oil-presses, in which the oil was trodden out by the feet (Micah 6:15). James (3:12) calls the fruit "olive berries." The phrase "vineyards and olives" (Judg. 15:5, A.V.) should be simply "olive-yard," or "olive-garden," as in the Revised Version. (See OIL.)
Synonyms of 'olive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aestival,
- beryl-green,
- berylline,
- blue-green,
- bluish-green,
- chartreuse,
- chloranemic,
- chlorine,
- chlorotic,
- citrine,
- citrinous,
- emerald,
- foliaged,
- glaucescent,
- glaucous,
- glaucous-green,
- grassy,
- green,
- green as grass,
- green-blue,
- greenish,
- greenish-blue,
- greenish-yellow,
- greensick,
- holly,
- ivy,
- ivy-green,
- leafy,
- leaved,
- olivaceous,
- olive-green,
- porraceous,
- smaragdine,
- springlike,
- summerlike,
- summery,
- verdant,
- verdurous,
- vernal,
- vernant,
- vert,
- virescent,
- yellowish-green
Words containing 'Olive'
- Oliver,
- olives,
- Mount Olive,
- Mount Oliver,
- Olive Branch,
- Olive Hill,
- Oliver County,
- Oliver Springs,
- Oliver, GA,
- Oliver, ND,
- Oliver, PA,
- Oliver, WI,
- Queen olive,
- Spurge olive,
- american olive,
- black olive,
- california olive,
- desert olive,
- green olive,
- java olives,
- joseph oliver,
- king oliver,
- olive brown,
- olive drab,
- olive family,
- olive green,
- olive oil,
- olive ridley,
- olive tree,
- oliver cromwell,
- oliver ellsworth,
- oliver goldsmith,
- oliver hardy,
- oliver heaviside,
- oliver stone,
- ripe olive,
- russian olive,
- wild olive,
- Mount Olive, AL,
- Mount Olive, IL,
- Mount Olive, MS,
- Mount Olive, NC,
- Mount Oliver, PA,
- Olive Branch, MS,
- Olive Hill, KY,
- Oliver County, ND,
- Oliver Springs, TN,
- david oliver selznick,
- european olive tree,
- olive-brown,
- olive-colored,
- olive-coloured,
- olive-drab,
- olive-gray,
- olive-green,
- olive-grey,
- olive-like,
- olive-sized,
- oliver hazard perry,
- oliver wendell holmes,
- sir oliver lodge,
- olive-drab uniform,
- olive-tree agaric,
- oliver wendell holmes jr.,
- sir oliver joseph lodge