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queen olive
noun
- any large, meaty olive suitable for pickling or processing.
- such an olive grown especially in the area of Seville, Spain.
queen olive
noun
- a variety of olive having large fleshy fruit suitable for pickling, esp one from around Seville in Spain
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Word History and Origins
Origin of queen olive1
First recorded in 1910–15
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Example Sentences
This may come as a surprise to audiences who warmed to Breslin as bespectacled and adorable aspiring beauty pageant queen Olive Hoover in the 2006 film, "Little Miss Sunshine".
From Reuters
Just at the top of the spinal cord, where it passes into the skull and joins with the brain, it swells out into a sort of knob, about the size of a queen olive or the head of a gold-headed cane, which is known as the medulla, or "pith."
From Project Gutenberg
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