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wild olive

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wild olive
n.
See devilwood.
wild olive
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of various trees or shrubs that resemble the olive tree or bear olive-like fruits, esp the oleaster
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Noun1.wild olive - erect shrub or climber of India and China with red olivelike fruit
Elaeagnus latifolia
oleaster - any of several shrubs of the genus Elaeagnus having silver-white twigs and yellow flowers followed by olivelike fruits


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The pass was crowned with dense, dark forest--deodar, walnut, wild cherry, wild olive, and wild pear, but mostly deodar, which is the Himalayan cedar; and under the shadow of the deodars stood a deserted shrine to Kali--who is Durga, who is Sitala, who is sometimes worshipped against the smallpox.
The Second Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
Among Ruskin's complete works 'Sesame and Lilies,' 'The Crown of Wild Olives,' and
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