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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Olive-green.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology and botany, of an olive-green color; olive-green.
- Applied to complexion, of a dull tawny color, with a greenish tinge in the shadows.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling the olive; of the color of the olive; olive-green.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the color of a green olive.
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Examples
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Fundulus notatus and F. olivaceous, are they separate species?
(UPDATED) Another half-brained science headline - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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Fundulus notatus and F. olivaceous, are they separate species?
(UPDATED) Another half-brained science headline - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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Thallus thin and inconspicuous, or becoming thick and more prominent, composed of rounded and often crowded or even heaped granules, these frequently compacted into a continuous or scattered, verrucose and often chinky, green-gray to olivaceous crust; apothecia small to large, 0.6 to
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker 1894
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The = gills = are adnate, sometimes decurrent by a little tooth, rather crowded, narrow, whitish, then dull yellow, and becoming dark from the spores, purplish to olivaceous.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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The flesh, which is white when young, changes to greenish yellow and finally brownish, with usually an olivaceous tinge, as the spores ripen.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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The eggs are regular ovals, with a pale-greenish ground, blotched and spotted with a somewhat olivaceous brown.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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Very regular, slightly elongated ovals, with scarcely any gloss on them, the ground greenish white, but everywhere thickly streaked and mottled and freckled over, most thickly about the large end, with a dull pale slightly olivaceous brown intermingled with brownish, or in some specimens faintly purplish grey.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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The single egg which it contained at the time of my finding it was a broad oval in shape, pale green, boldly blotched with blackish over spots of olive and olivaceous brown, mingled with linear markings of the same, under which there were small clouds and blotches of bluish grey.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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-- "Above olivaceous, mixed with yellow grey; white below; sides of the body with yellowish-white lines formed of interrupted spots, the upper rows of which are joined to those of the opposite side by some transverse spots; ears reddish-brown"
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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-- General colour fulvous olivaceous, paler beneath and with an ashy tinge; ears with a narrow margin of white (_Jerdon_.)
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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