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Oleaster :: Oleaster (n.) The wild olive tree (Olea Europea, var. sylvestris)..

Olive :: Olive (n.) A tree (Olea Europaea) 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..

Jeffersonite :: Jeffersonite (n.) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.

Palmitin :: Palmitin (n.) A solid crystallizable fat, found abundantly in animals and in vegetables. It occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl, and hence it is technically called tripalmitin, or glyceryl tripalmitate..

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..

Redstart :: Redstart (n.) An American fly-catching warbler (Setophaga ruticilla). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches..

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

Oil :: Oil (n.) Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, any substance of an oily consistency; as, oil of vitriol..

Demulcent :: Demulcent (n.) A substance, usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature, supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting it from irritation. Gum Arabic, glycerin, olive oil, etc., are demulcents..

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

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..

Olivewood :: Olivewood (n.) An Australian name given to the hard white wood of certain trees of the genus Elaeodendron, and also to the trees themselves..

Protectorate :: Protectorate (n.) Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell.

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

Olive :: Olive (a.) Approaching the color of the olive; of a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green..

Polive :: Polive (n.) A pulley.

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

Olivewood :: Olivewood (n.) The wood of the olive.

Robin :: Robin (n.) An American singing bird (Merula migratoria), having the breast chestnut, or dull red. The upper parts are olive-gray, the head and tail blackish. Called also robin redbreast, and migratory thrush..

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