Word.ws English Dictionary

oliveback

oliveback noun: any of the birds in the genus Nesocharis or Delacourella, found in western and central Africa.

oliveback: any of the birds in the genus Nesocharis or Delacourella, found in western and central Africa
Image: Nigel Voaden from UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

oliveback (plural olivebacks)

  1. Any of the birds in the genus Nesocharis or Delacourella, found in western and central Africa.

Forms of oliveback

pluralolivebacks

Origin of oliveback

From olive + back.

Questions about oliveback

What does oliveback mean?
Oliveback means any of the birds in the genus Nesocharis or Delacourella, found in western and central Africa.
What part of speech is oliveback?
Oliveback is a noun.
What is the plural of oliveback?
The plural of oliveback is olivebacks.

Words near oliveback in the dictionary

  1. olive-branching
  2. olive-oily
  3. olive-pomace oil
  4. olive-sided flycatcher
  5. olive-sided flycatchers
  6. oliveback
  7. olivebacks
  8. olived
  9. olivegreen
  10. olivegrower
  11. olivegrowers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: oliveback (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “oliveback.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/oliveback. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.