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Olive

Olive is a female given name.

olive

A tree, Olea europaea, that is grown in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil that comes from it. The small oval fruit of an olive tree; olives are eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green). The wood of the olive tree. A grayish green color, the color of an unripe olive.

olive

of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish

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Simple sentences

Do we have any olive oil?
This olive tree is very old.
They love to consume olive oil.
We'd like to order 18 tonnes of olive oil.
Kabylia produces a lot of olive oil, figs, prickly pears, pomegranates and grapes.
An olive branch symbolizes peace.
An olive branch symbolises peace.
Tom bought a bottle of olive oil.
Tom likes olive oil.
Olive oil is perishable.
Tom poured some olive oil on the salad.
Olive oil is extracted from olives.
This is really good-quality olive oil.

Movie subtitles

In this relatively fertile valley there are some walnut, cherry and olive trees.
Olive trees grow in more fertile spots.
The olive branch!
They're carrying the olive branch.
She came bearing the olive branch.
She's no dove with an olive branch.
He's no olive.
I take an olive, I throw it in that glass, but there it is.
Joe here was showing me a trick, and the olive got away.
First you drop an olive, then I sit on my hat.
No, to drop an olive.
Won't you just take the olive dish?
WITH AN OLIVE WREATH FOR THE PRESIDENT.
Biggie, get some warm olive oil.
And after that, come back from the store with some olive oil.
Good morning, Olive.
Olive, here's her special drinking water.
Straight gin with a green olive.
Hello. send an ambulance to the Pacific Building on Olive Street.
Put a dress on an olive stump and my poor, untutored nephew would call it beautiful.
There's a self-service elevator on the Olive Street side.
You can't even get a little olive out of a jar.
I like cream cheese and olive.
That cream cheese and olive looks good.
I think I will take another cream cheese and olive.

News and current affairs

Extending an olive branch to Russia will have little or no voter appeal in most EU countries, and Putin's efforts to retain power de facto if not de jure after Medvedev wins his likely victory next March are certain to make matters worse.
Arafat never grew beyond the man who appeared at the United Nations decades ago with both an olive branch and a gun.
Unfortunately, the window of opportunity for such a gesture to be viewed in Europe as a much-awaited olive branch - and a sign of real American strength and conviction - is closing fast.
How was it preserved by digging up runways, uprooting olive trees, and fouling wells?
But, instead of accepting China's olive branch, Koizumi implemented a more nationalistic agenda, including annual visits to the Yasukuni Shine, which is regarded as a symbol of Japanese militarism by Japan's neighbors.
They have since been restarted, an olive branch sent to the Obama administration by China's government.
TOKYO - When a North Korean dove clutching an olive branch suddenly appears, the world should challenge it to reveal its hidden talons.
The Australian law requires not only health warnings and images of the physical damage that smoking causes, but also that the packs themselves be plain, with brand names in small generic type, no logos, and no color other than a drab olive-brown.

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