WILD OLIVE Definition & Meaning

wild olive

wild olive

any of various trees or shrubs that resemble the olive tree or bear olive-like fruits, esp the oleaster

Discover More

First recorded in 1800–10

Discover More

Examples have not been reviewed.

A wild olive tree marked the end of the thicket, which must have been fed from an underground tributary of the Tarim River.

From

Estimated to be between 3,000 and 4,000 years old, it's one of the oldest specimens of wild olive on the island.

From

In the midst of wild olive trees, a muscular man sporting pink hair and a woman’s swimming costume stares into a mirror.

From

To figure out how wild olive baboons manage this, the authors of a 2015 paper put GPS collars on 25 members of one troop in Kenya.

From

They easily picked out the bucket with leaves from plants they enjoyed, say wild pear, and avoided ones they didn’t like, wild olive, for instance.

From

Browse