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OLIVE FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does olive family mean? 

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

1. trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits; sometimes placed in the order Oleales: olive; ash; jasmine; privet; lilacplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


OLIVE FAMILY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits; sometimes placed in the order Oleales: olive; ash; jasmine; privet; lilac

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Oleaceae; Oleaceae; olive family

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

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "olive family"):

genus Olea; Olea (evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits)

Chionanthus; genus Chionanthus (deciduous trees or shrubs: fringe tree)

genus Forestiera (genus of often spiny American shrubs and trees)

genus Forsythia (forsythia)

Fraxinus; genus Fraxinus (ash)

genus Jasminum; Jasminum (shrubs and woody climbers mostly of tropical and temperate Old World: jasmine; jessamine)

genus Ligustrum; Ligustrum (genus of Old World shrubs: privet)

genus Osmanthus; Osmanthus (widely distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or trees of southern United States and Middle East and China and Japan)

genus Phillyrea; Phillyrea (small genus of evergreen shrubs of the Mediterranean region)

genus Syringa; Syringa (genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs)

Holonyms ("olive family" is a member of...):

Gentianales; order Gentianales (an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceae)


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