olive

A small green or black fruit eaten with food or used to make oil.

• Would you like an olive?
• She added black olives to the salad.
• We ate bread with cheese and green olives.

Common phrases: green olive, black olive, olive oil

A tree grown in warm places for its small fruit and the oil made from it.

• An olive grows beside the house.
• They planted young olives on the hillside.
• This old olive still produces fruit every year.

Similar words: olive tree

Common phrases: olive tree, olive grove, wild olive

A dark green color with some yellow or gray in it.

• She chose olive for the walls.
• The jacket comes in olive and brown.
• A deep olive would suit this room.

Similar words: olive green

Common phrases: dark olive, shade of olive, olive green

The hard wood of a tree grown for small green or black fruit and oil.

• The bowl is made of olive.
• He carved the handle from olive wood.
• Polished olive has a beautiful pattern in its grain.

Similar words: olive wood

Common phrases: olive wood, carved olive, polished olive

A thin piece of meat rolled around a filling and cooked.

• She served a beef olive with potatoes.
• The olives cooked slowly in a rich gravy.
• Each beef olive contained a little onion stuffing.

Similar words: meat roll

Common phrases: beef olive, stuffed olive