california olive

Questions about california olive

What does california olive mean?

california olive means "Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood".

What is another word for california olive?

Close synonyms include California laurel, California bay tree, Oregon myrtle, pepperwood, spice tree. 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 california olive a common word?

california 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.