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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the Oleaceæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural family of plants (Oleaceæ), mostly trees and shrubs, of which the olive is the type. It includes also the ash, the lilac, the true jasmine, and fringe tree.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the plant family Oleaceae.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or pertaining to or characteristic of trees or shrubs of the olive family

Etymologies

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Oleaceae +‎ -ous

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