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What is "olive tree"

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olive tree

n. An evergreen tree, ''Olea europaea'', that produces olives as fruit.

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olive tree

n. a tree of the genus Olea cultivated for its fruit

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Olive tree (disambiguation)

The olive tree is a small tree in the Oleaceae family.

Olive tree may also refer to:

  • Olive Tree Bible Software, an electronic publisher of Bible versions, study tools, and Christian eBooks for mobile devices
  • Olive Tree Theology, a Christian theological movement
  • Olive Tree (Greece), a centre-left electoral alliance in Greece
  • The Olive Tree (Italy) , a former centre-left political coalition in Italy
  • "The Olive Tree", a 1953 American song from the 1953 musical Kismet
  • "The Olive Tree", a 1967 song written by Diane Lampert and Tom Springfield and performed by Judith Durham
  • "The Olive Tree", a 1979 Taiwanese song by Chyi Yu
  • "The Olive Tree", a song by Scale the Summit from the album The Migration
  • The Olive Tree (1975 film), an Australian TV movie
  • The Olive Tree (2016 film), a 2016 film directed by Icíar Bollaín
Olive Tree (Greece)

The Olive Tree (, Elia), full name Olive Tree – Democratic Alignment was a centre-left political and electoral alliance in Greece. The alliance was founded at a congress in Athens on 7 March 2014 to contest the upcoming European Parliament elections. The alliance included the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) and minor allies, the Agreement for the New Greece, Dynamic Greece and the New Reformers. The Olive Tree was endorsed by Martin Schulz, the Party of European Socialists' candidate for European Commission presidency.

In the May 2014 European elections, the Olive Tree list came in fourth place nationally, receiving 8.0% of the vote, electing 2 MEPs to the S&D group.

Usage examples of "olive tree".

Meanwhile his evenings were spent beside the tomb of his friend, where a young olive tree had sprung up near the sleeper's head.

Gilles had his own dreams, but while hers came in her bed, or dozing in the shade of an olive tree, or even while her head nodded in sea-reflected sunlight on her father's fishing boat, Gilles dreams came only in one place—.

He sat down on the root of the ancient olive tree and began to eat.

He had been a produce factor in Ruzor, until he fell out of an olive tree and broke his neck.

Joshua hid his face and huddled against the trunk of an olive tree.

Their dream of heaven was a few acres of grain, a vegetable garden terraced on a mountainside, a tiny vineyard of grapes, a lemon tree and an olive tree.

Unable to find a hotel one night, he had slept on the ground, awaking the next morning to find himself beneath an olive tree.

Instinctively he crouched a little lower on the ridge, pressing his body against the rough-barked trunk of the olive tree.

At one end of that tomb, its curious roots displacing the time-stained blocks of Panhellic marble, grows an unnaturally large olive tree of oddly repellent shape.

Ahead a Squadronite slumped down and lay draped across the low branch of the olive tree.