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ˈolive-ˌplant
1. = olive 1.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. Tab. 268 Oliuis, to rere withouten oliue plauntis. 1611Bible Ps. cxxviii. 3 Thy children like olive-plants round about thy table.
2. pl. (in allusion to Ps. cxxviii. 3.) Children. (= olive-branch 2.)
1616Sir E. Sandys Ps. in Farr S.P. Jas. I (1848) 80 Thy children sweet, in virtue bred, Fair olive-plants, thy boord beset. 1842J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 315 The training of the olive-plants that soon arise about a minister's table should be a matter of much anxiety and many prayers. |