Olive
- Proper noun. (given name, female) .
- 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 grayish green color, that of an unripe olive.
- Noun. (anatomy) An olivary body, part of the medulla oblongata.
- Adjective. Of a grayish green color, that of an unripe olive.
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