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Oleaceous :: Oleaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Oleaceae), mostly trees and shrubs, of which the olive is the type. It includes also the ash, the lilac, the true jasmine, and fringe tree..

Petalism :: Petalism (n.) A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans by which they banished for five years a citizen suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots.

Olive :: Olive (n.) One of the tertiary colors, composed of violet and green mixed in equal strength and proportion..

Umber :: Umber (a.) Of or pertaining to umber; resembling umber; olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky.

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

Boron :: Boron (n.) A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B..

Ash :: Ash (n.) A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (F. Americana)..

Olivary :: Olivary (a.) Like an olive.

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

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

Polive :: Polive (n.) A pulley.

Olived :: Olived (a.) Decorated or furnished with olive trees.

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

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..

Phaeospore :: Phaeospore (n.) A brownish zoospore, characteristic of an order (Phaeosporeae) of dark green or olive-colored algae..

Rhachiglossa :: Rhachiglossa (n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append..

Basilicon :: Basilicon (n.) An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance..

Olivenite :: Olivenite (n.) An olive-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of copper; olive ore..

Marmottes Oil :: Marmottes oil () A fine oil obtained from the kernel of Prunus brigantiaca. It is used instead of olive or almond oil.

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

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