Word Meanings - OLIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An olivary body. See under Olivary. (more info) A tree with small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivated for its fruit for thousands of years, and its branches are

Additional info about word: OLIVE

An olivary body. See under Olivary. (more info) A tree with small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivated for its fruit for thousands of years, and its branches are the emblems of peace. The wood is yellowish brown and beautifully variegated. The fruit of the olive. It has been much improved by cultivation, and is used for making pickles. Olive oil is pressed from its flesh. Any shell of the genus Oliva and allied genera; -- so called from the form. See Oliva. The oyster catcher. The color of the olive, a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green. One of the tertiary colors, composed of violet and green mixed in equal strength and proportion.

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  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• UNDERBRED
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• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• UNDERPLOT
  1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
• FRUIT
  The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3. (more info) enjoyment, product, fruit, from frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy; akin 1. Whatever
• UNDERNICENESS
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• FRUITAGE
  1. Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery. The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear. Milton. 2. Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.
• UNDERSOIL
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• UNDERDOLVEN
  p. p. of Underdelve.
• OBLONG
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• UNDERNIME
  1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
• UNDERPROP
  To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• OLIVARY
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• UNDERSAY
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• UNDERTAPSTER
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• UNDERDELVE
  To delve under.
• UNDERSTOOD
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• UNDERDO
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• PLUNDERER
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  Growing outside of the axils; as, an extra-axillary bud.
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• TEMPOROMAXILLARY
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