Definitions

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  • adjective resembling an olive

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Examples

  • I think it is something kind of complicated; she looks sort of exotic with that olive-like skin I've always wanted.

    Temporary Housing 2009

  • I think it is something kind of complicated; she looks sort of exotic with that olive-like skin I've always wanted.

    Temporary Housing 2009

  • Amongst them are the Sángo and Nefu, with pleasant acid berries; the Ntábá, described as a red grape, which will presently make wine; the olive-like Azyigo (Ozigo?); the filbert-like Kula, the

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • The pale yellow male flowers, immersed in a solution of common salt, are also used to give zest to the soiled appetite, the combination of flavour being olive-like, piquant and grateful.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • On a sudden the _macchia_ had burst into fruit -- carmine berries of the sarsaparilla, upon which a few late flowerets yet drooped, duller berries of the lentisk, olive-like berries of the phillyria, velvet purple berries of the myrtle, and (putting all to shade) yellow and scarlet fruit of the arbutus, clustering like fairy oranges, here and there so thickly that the whole thicket was afire and aflame, enough to have deceived Moses!

    Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • The pale yellow male flowers, immersed in a solution of common salt, are also used to give zest to the soiled appetite, the combination of flavour being olive-like, piquant and grateful.

    Confessions of a Beachcomber 1887

  • "Good -- good!" he exclaimed, eagerly; and he gave them to Don to carry, while he once more resumed his search, which this time was successful, for he found a young tree, and stripped from its branches a large number of its olive-like berries.

    The Adventures of Don Lavington Nolens Volens George Manville Fenn 1870

  • "Karaka," said their new friend, offering a basket of an olive-like fruit.

    The Adventures of Don Lavington Nolens Volens George Manville Fenn 1870

  • He was pale, too, if that sallow colour, which olive-like complexions like his assume when wrought upon, can be called pale.

    The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune 1863

  • Amongst them are the Sángo and Nefu, with pleasant acid berries; the Ntábá, described as a red grape, which will presently make wine; the olive-like Azyigo (Ozigo?); the filbert-like Kula, the

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

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