wild olive

noun

1. any tree resembling the olive in structure or fruit.

wild olive

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of wild olive¹

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

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

From Literature

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 BBC

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

From The Guardian

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 New York Times

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 New York Times