Audio English.net » Dictionary » J » Jarringly ... Jean Antoine Watteau

JAVA OLIVES

Pronunciation (US):

Dictionary entry overview: What does Java olives mean?

• JAVA OLIVES (noun)
The noun JAVA OLIVES has 1 sense:

1. large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food

Familiarity information: JAVA OLIVES used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• JAVA OLIVES (noun)

Sense 1

Java olives ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Java olives; kalumpang; Sterculia foetida

Hypernyms ("Java olives" is a kind of...):

sterculia (any tree of the genus Sterculia)

Learn English with... Proverbs of the week

"Look before you leap." (English proverb)

"Without sowing a single wheat you would not harvest thousand ones." (Azerbaijani proverb)

"Pick the lesser of the two evils." (Arabic proverb)

"The best helmsmen stand on shore" (Dutch proverb)

Related FAQs:

» JAVA

Page delivered in 0.0274 seconds