wild olive

noun

wild olive

any of various trees or shrubs that resemble the olive tree or bear olive-like fruits, esp the oleaster

First recorded in 1800–10

The stone-pine and wild-olive are perhaps the only trees found growing in a natural state.

Somewhere along the line of this great thoroughfare the wild olive was domesticated, improved, and transformed.

See the 1873 edition of the "Crown of Wild Olive," p. 30, § 27.

But there will be no meetings at the wild olive between you and me.

They trembled, they swayed; they swayed as the wild olive swayed in the wind of the night.

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