AMERICAN OLIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American olive mean? 

• AMERICAN OLIVE (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN OLIVE has 1 sense:

1. small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERICAN OLIVE (noun)

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Meaning:

Small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American olive; devilwood; Osmanthus americanus

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

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

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

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