Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The wood of the common olive.
- noun The name of two trees, Elæodendron orientale of Mauritius and Madagascar, and E. australe of Australia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The wood of the olive.
- noun An Australian name given to the hard white wood of certain trees of the genus Elæodendron, and also to the trees themselves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
wood of theolive tree - noun Any of several
ornamental trees of the genus Cassine
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Examples
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Quite beyond ordinary scruples by this time, I shamelessly rifled the olivewood desk, keeping an ear out for returning footsteps.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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At Via Garibaldi 5A/7, Anna Maria Costa presides over Emilio Borsi, a.k.a. L'Elixir, a brick-walled, industrial-looking space with wooden display shelves overflowing with artisanal honeys, figured olivewood kitchen implements, and local confections like the dry cookies called "bones of the dead."
The Other Tuscany Richard Nalley 2010
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The olivewood base made it one of the sexiest mens scents to come down the pike in a long while.
Fat Chance Rhonda Pollero 2009
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It takes pride of place on our mantlepiece in the living room next to our olivewood statue of Our Blessed Lady exquisitely carved by Catholic craftsmen from Bethlehem, still struggling to eke out a living in the Holy Land.
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The olivewood base made it one of the sexiest mens scents to come down the pike in a long while.
Fat Chance Rhonda Pollero 2009
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The olivewood base made it one of the sexiest mens scents to come down the pike in a long while.
Fat Chance Rhonda Pollero 2009
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Endemic trees include: Bermuda cedar (Juniperus bermudiana), Bermuda palmetto (Sabal bermudana), and Bermuda olivewood (Elaeodendron laneanum).
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The woodlands were characterized by three endemic trees, each of which is listed as threatened by the IUCN: Bermuda cedar (Juniperus bermudiana), Bermuda palmetto (Sabal bermudana), and Bermuda olivewood (Elaeodendron laneanum).
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Rare endemic plants include Bermuda olivewood (Elaeodendron laneanum), wild Bermuda bean (Phaseolus lignosus), and Bermuda sedge (Carex bermudiana), which is confined to Paget Marsh and 5 upland sites.
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The shaft was sometimes ash, sometimes olivewood, and the spearhead was bronze.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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