desert olive

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   spiny branching deciduous shrub of southwestern United States having clusters of insignificant yellow-white flowers appearing before leaves followed by attractive black berrylike fruits

   SynonymstanglebushForestiera neomexicana

   Broaderforestiera

Questions about desert olive

What does desert olive mean?

desert olive means "spiny branching deciduous shrub of southwestern United States having clusters of insignificant yellow-white flowers appearing before leaves followed by attractive black berrylike fruits".

What is another word for desert olive?

Close synonyms include tanglebush, Forestiera neomexicana. 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 desert olive a common word?

desert 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.