black olive

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   olives picked ripe and cured in brine then dried or pickled or preserved canned or in oil

   Synonymsripe olive

   Broaderolive

Questions about black olive

What does black olive mean?

black olive means "olives picked ripe and cured in brine then dried or pickled or preserved canned or in oil".

What is another word for black olive?

Close synonyms include ripe olive. 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 black olive a common word?

black 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.