american olive

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   small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits

   SynonymsdevilwoodOsmanthus americanus

   Broadertree

   Part ofOsmanthus

Questions about american olive

What does american olive mean?

american olive means "small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits".

What is another word for american olive?

Close synonyms include devilwood, Osmanthus americanus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is american olive a common word?

american olive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.