wild olive

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   erect shrub or climber of India and China with red olivelike fruit

   SynonymsElaeagnus latifolia

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Questions about wild olive

What does wild olive mean?

wild olive means "erect shrub or climber of India and China with red olivelike fruit".

What is another word for wild olive?

Close synonyms include Elaeagnus latifolia. 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 wild olive a common word?

wild 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.