Word Meanings - OLIVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An olive grove. Chaucer. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:

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• OLIVERIAN
  An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay.
• OLIVED
  Decorated or furnished with olive trees. T. Warton.
• OLIVEWOOD
  The wood of the olive. An Australian name given to the hard white wood of certain trees of the genus Elæodendron, and also to the trees themselves.
• OLIVENITE
  An olive-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of copper; olive ore.
• GROVEL
  adv., on the face, prone, which was misunderstood as a p. pr.; cf. OE. gruf, groff, in the same sense; of Scand. origin, cf. Icel. 1. To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate
• GROVELER
  One who grovels; an abject wretch.
• OLIVER
  An olive grove. Chaucer. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• GROVE
  The original sense seems to have been a lane cut through trees. forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent. Note: The Hebrew word Asherah, rendered grove in the Authorized Version of
• GROVELING
  Lying prone; low; debased. "A groveling creature." Cowper.
• 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
• UNDERGROVE
  A grove of shrubs or low trees under taller ones. Wordsworth.
• QUEEN OLIVE
  Properly, a kind of superior olive grown in the region of Seville, Spain. It is large size and oblong shape with a small but long pit; it is cured when green, keeps well, and has a delicate flavor. Loosely, any olive of similar character.
• POLIVE
  A pulley. Chaucer.
• MANGROVE
  The name of one or two trees of the genus Rhizophora (R. Mangle, and R. mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aërial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually