wild olive

noun
any tree resembling the olive in structure or fruit.

Origin:
1800–10

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

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Wild olive is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
Example sentences
So he crept beneath twin bushes that grew from one stem, both olive trees, one of them wild olive.
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