green olive

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   olives picked green and pickled in brine; infrequently stuffed with e.g. pimento

   Broaderolive

Questions about green olive

What does green olive mean?

green olive means "olives picked green and pickled in brine; infrequently stuffed with e.g. pimento".

Is green olive a common word?

green 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.