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Vireo :: Vireo (n.) Any one of numerous species of American singing birds belonging to Vireo and allied genera of the family Vireonidae. In many of the species the back is greenish, or olive-colored. Called also greenlet..

Olive :: Olive (n.) The oyster catcher.

Olive :: Olive (n.) A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked; as, olives of beef or veal..

Oliver :: Oliver (n.) An olive grove.

Kra :: Kra (n.) A long-tailed ape (Macacus cynomolgus) of India and Sumatra. It is reddish olive, spotted with black, and has a black tail..

Stellionate :: Stellion (n.) A lizard (Stellio vulgaris), common about the Eastern Mediterranean among ruins. In color it is olive-green, shaded with black, with small stellate spots. Called also hardim, and star lizard..

Terre-verte :: Terre-verte (n.) An olive-green earth used as a pigment. See Glauconite.

Olivaster :: Olivaster (a.) Of the color of the olive; tawny.

Mayonnaise :: Mayonnaise (n.) A sauce compounded of raw yolks of eggs beaten up with olive oil to the consistency of a sirup, and seasoned with vinegar, pepper, salt, etc.; -- used in dressing salads, fish, etc. Also, a dish dressed with this sauce..

Mona :: Mona (n.) A small, handsome, long-tailed West American monkey (Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot of white on the haunches..

Thuringite :: Thuringite (n.) A mineral occurring as an aggregation of minute scales having an olive-green color and pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia and iron.

Afford :: Afford (v. t.) To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish..

Olive :: Olive (n.) An olivary body. See under Olivary.

Cubebic :: Cubebic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cubebs; as, cubebic acid (a soft olive-green resin extracted from cubebs)..

Betty :: Betty (n.) A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask..

Caduceus :: Caduceus (n.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top..

Byssolite :: Byssolite (n.) An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende.

Gallipoli Oil :: Gallipoli oil () An inferior kind of olive oil, brought from Gallipoli, in Italy..

Forsythia :: Forsythia (a.) A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms..

Olivaceous :: Olivaceous (a.) Resembling the olive; of the color of the olive; olive-green.

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