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olive tree

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Noun1.olive treeolive tree - a tree of the genus Olea cultivated for its fruit
genus Olea, Olea - evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits
olive - hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork
European olive tree, Olea europaea, olive - evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits
black maire, Olea cunninghamii - northern Zealand tree having dense hard light-brown wood
Olea lanceolata, white maire - small New Zealand tree having red pulpy one-seeded fruit
fruit tree - tree bearing edible fruit
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olive tree شجرة الزيتون olivovník oliventræ Olivenbaum ελιά olivo oliivipuu olivier drvo masline olivo オリーブ 올리브 나무 olijfboom oliventre drzewo oliwne oliveira оливковое дерево olivträd ต้นมะกอก zeytin ağacı cây ôliu 橄榄树


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Thousands of grasshoppers, hidden in the bushes, chirped with a monotonous and dull note; the leaves of the myrtle and olive trees waved and rustled in the wind.
He had just discovered Cezanne, and was uger to go to Provence; he wanted heavy skies from which the hot blue seemed to drip like beads of sweat, and broad white dusty roads, and pale roofs out of which the sun had burnt the colour, and olive trees gray with heat.
There was no ugliness to shut out, and the villa looked straight across the shoulder of a slope, ribbed with olive trees, to the sea.
 
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