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Product of pressed fruit
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olive oil
Word definitions for olive oil in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Olive \Ol"ive\, n. [F., fr. L. oliva, akin to Gr. ?. See Oil .] (Bot.) A tree ( Olea Europ[ae]a ) with small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivated for its fruit for thousands ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ This salad is best with a vinegar and olive oil dressing. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Black olives, being fully ripened, are naturally sweeter and are usually sold preserved in brine or olive oil . ▪ Drizzle with a tablespoon ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. oil from olives
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Olive oil is a fat obtained from the olive (the fruit of Olea europaea ; family Oleaceae ), a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin . The oil is produced by pressing whole olives and is commonly used in cooking , cosmetics , pharmaceuticals , ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A vegetable oil, pressed from olives, and used in cooking and as a salad dressing; it is high in unsaturated fatty acids.
Usage examples of olive oil.
Yet tinder dribbled with olive oil burnt with sputtering and black smoke.
A League accountant looks at the entry in her ledgers and sees forty-five hundred hectares, yieldin' so-and-so many tonnes of wheat and fodder, x hundred hectoliters of wine and y of olive oil per year.
My father has made lamps by threading a wick through a cork and floating it in a bowl of olive oil, which he says was what we did in ancient times, but the light is poor, they are very smokey, and the smell unpleasant.
He had a wine press, but he wanted an olive press also, so that the whole village could come to him to extract its olive oil, and he could take out a percentage and fill his own jars for the year.
She made me taste salad dressings over and over until I could pour out the precise ratio of olive oil to vinegar without looking at what I was doing.
The people were mostly rugged, wiry people who looked like Arabs without the glow in their skin that came from a diet rich in olive oil.
He'd eaten half a loaf of bread soaked in olive oil just before coming to the Skinner camp.
And for emergencies he kept on one of his shelves, with the embroidery needles and piles of fabric, a huge jar of olive oil.
Through the front window (over Athena olive oil tins) my father looked out day after day at the changes on Pingree Street.
She relaxed in the grounded stability of her chair, watching liquid light oxbow over the viscous black water of the harbor, listening to Michel talk to the people sitting at the next table, tasting the olive oil and bread, the cheeses and ouzo.