wild olive

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Noun

wild olive (plural wild olives)

  1. Any of several species resembling a typical olive tree from plant families some of which are only very distantly related.
    1. Bontia daphnoides (family Scrophulariaceae; bastard olive)
    2. Several species in the genus Elaeagnus (family Elaeagnaceae), particularly:
      1. Elaeagnus angustifolia (silver berry, oleaster, Persian olive)
      2. Elaeagnus latifolia (oleaster)
    3. Halesia carolina (family Styracaceae; Carolina silverbell, little silverbell)
    4. Nyssa aquatica, an American swamp-growing tree (family Cornaceae; water tupelo)
    5. Subspecies of Olea europea, which includes the cultivated olive (family Oleaceae)
      1. Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata
      2. Olea europaea subsp. europaea (syn. Olea oleaster)
    6. Cartrema americana (syn. Osmanthus americanus; devilwood, American olive; family Elaeagnaceae)

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