n. The oil-tree, Olea Europæa, cultivated from the earliest times in Syria and Palestine, and thence in remote antiquity distributed throughout the whole Mediterranean region: in recent times it has been successfully planted in Australia, southern California, and elsewhere.n. The fruit of the common olive-tree, a small ellipsoid drupe (the “berry”), bluish-black in color when fully ripe.n. A tree of some other species of Olea, or of some other genus resembling the olive. See Olea, and phrases below.n. The color of the unripe olive; a color composed of yellow, black, red, and white in such proportions as to form a low-toned dull green, slightly yellow.n. Same as oliva, 1.n. A perforated plate in the strap of a satchel or traveling-bag, through which the stud or button passes to fasten it.n. A long oval button over which loops of braid are passed as a fastening for cloaks, etc.n. In anatomy, the olivary body of the medulla oblongata.n. In conchology, an olive-shell.n. In ornithology, the oyster-catcher, Hæmatopus ostrilegus.n. One of various trees of other genera: in Europe, Elæagnus angustifolia, Rhus Cotinus, and Thymelæa Sanamunda (Daphne Thymelæa); in the West Indies, Bontia daphnoides, Ximenia Americana, Terminalia Buceras, and T. capitata; in India, Putranjiva Roxburghii.Relating to the olive; of the color of the unripe olive; olivaceous; of a dull, somewhat yellowish green: also, of the color of the olive-tree, which in general effect is of a dull ashen-green, with distinctly silvery shading.n. Elæocarpus cyaneus. Compare olive-nut.n. Notelæa ovata. See dunga-runga and Notelæa.n. The Queensland olive, Olea paniculata. See marblewood, 2.