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oil of olives

oil of olives noun: olive oil.

Noun

oil of olives (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Olive oil.
    • Common Oil of Olives, is pressed out of ripe olives, not out of the stones.1652, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician
    • Oil of olives.—The province of Suse produces great abundance of this oil.1809, James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco, section VIII

Forms of oil of olives

alternative formoil of olive

Origin of oil of olives

From Middle English oile of olyvys.

Questions about oil of olives

What does oil of olives mean?
Oil of olives means olive oil.
What part of speech is oil of olives?
Oil of olives is a noun.

Words near oil of olives in the dictionary

  1. oil of brick
  2. oil of bricks
  3. oil of lemon eucalyptus
  4. oil of mirbane
  5. oil of myrbane
  6. oil of olives
  7. oil of palm
  8. oil of petre
  9. oil of spike
  10. oil of talc
  11. oil of tartar

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