| 单词 | olive |
| 释义 | olive (once / 363 pages) nadj An olive is a very small fruit, although you probably think of it as a savory snack. You might find an olive on a salad, on a pizza, or even on a toothpick in your martini. Olives are so naturally bitter that they're basically inedible unless they've been treated — cured with lye or salt, and then fermented. In addition to the olives you see in jars on grocery store shelves, olive trees yield an expensive, durable wood; and of course, olive oil. You can also describe the yellowish-green color of an unripe olive as olive. And when someone offers "an olive branch," they are trying to make peace or come to an understanding. WORD FAMILYolive: olive-colored, olive-like, olivelike, olives USAGE EXAMPLESHe and Hopper ambled into the back yard to sweep up fallen olive leaves. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Reversing them would appear as an olive branch from the new president to his Russian counterpart. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) She sells it in places like Tasty Olive Co. in Highland and is interested in offering it at local coffee shops. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1n small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil Hyper fruit the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant 2n one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish Hypo|Hyper black olive, ripe olive olives picked ripe and cured in brine then dried or pickled or preserved canned or in oil green oliveolives picked green and pickled in brine; infrequently stuffed with e.g. pimento relish spicy or savory condiment drupe, stone fruitfleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube 3n evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits Syn|Hyper European olive tree, Olea europaea olive tree a tree of the genus Olea cultivated for its fruit 4n hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork Hyper wood the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees 5n a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation Hypo|Hyper drab, olive drab a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour a color that has hue 6adj of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive Syn chromatic being or having or characterized by hue |
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