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BLACK OLIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black olive mean? 

BLACK OLIVE (noun)
  The noun BLACK OLIVE has 1 sense:

1. olives picked ripe and cured in brine then dried or pickled or preserved canned or in oilplay

  Familiarity information: BLACK OLIVE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLACK OLIVE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Olives picked ripe and cured in brine then dried or pickled or preserved canned or in oil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

black olive; ripe olive

Hypernyms ("black olive" is a kind of...):

olive (one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish)


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