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Wild olive   /waɪld ˈɑləv/   Listen
Wild olive

noun
1.
Erect shrub or climber of India and China with red olivelike fruit.  Synonym: Elaeagnus latifolia.





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... that some one should give him his sword, and AEneas threatened that he would destroy the city if any should help him. Five times about the space they ran; not for some prize they strove, but for the life of Turnus. Now there stood in the plain the stump of a wild olive-tree. The tree was sacred to Faunus, but the men of Troy had cut it, and the stump only was left. Herein the spear of AEneas was fixed, and now he would have drawn it forth that he might slay Turnus ...
— The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) • Various
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