GENUS OLEA
Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Olea mean?
• GENUS OLEA (noun)
The noun GENUS OLEA has 1 sense:
1. evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits
Familiarity information: GENUS OLEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENUS OLEA (noun)
Meaning:
Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Olea; Olea
Hypernyms ("genus Olea" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "genus Olea"):
olive tree (a tree of the genus Olea cultivated for its fruit)
European olive tree; Olea europaea; olive (evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits)
black maire; Olea cunninghamii (northern Zealand tree having dense hard light-brown wood)
Olea lanceolata; white maire (small New Zealand tree having red pulpy one-seeded fruit)
Holonyms ("genus Olea" is a member of...):
family Oleaceae; Oleaceae; olive family (trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits; sometimes placed in the order Oleales: olive; ash; jasmine; privet; lilac)
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