OLIVE FAMILY
Dictionary entry overview: What does olive family mean?
• OLIVE FAMILY (noun)
The noun OLIVE FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits; sometimes placed in the order Oleales: olive; ash; jasmine; privet; lilac
Familiarity information: OLIVE FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• OLIVE FAMILY (noun)
Meaning:
Trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits; sometimes placed in the order Oleales: olive; ash; jasmine; privet; lilac
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Oleaceae; Oleaceae; olive family
Hypernyms ("olive family" is a kind of...):
dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "olive family"):
genus Phillyrea; Phillyrea (small genus of evergreen shrubs of the Mediterranean region)
genus Osmanthus; Osmanthus (widely distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or trees of southern United States and Middle East and China and Japan)
genus Ligustrum; Ligustrum (genus of Old World shrubs: privet)
genus Jasminum; Jasminum (shrubs and woody climbers mostly of tropical and temperate Old World: jasmine; jessamine)
Fraxinus; genus Fraxinus (ash)
genus Forsythia (forsythia)
genus Forestiera (genus of often spiny American shrubs and trees)
Chionanthus; genus Chionanthus (deciduous trees or shrubs: fringe tree)
genus Olea; Olea (evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits)
genus Syringa; Syringa (genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs)
Holonyms ("olive family" is a member of...):
Gentianales; order Gentianales (an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceae)
