Plural of olive

Forms of olive

Olives in a sentence

• Trevor, like an Aussie outbacker, eats snacks and a pickup meal of bread, cantaloupe, olives, mangoes, and melon.2010, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Peter Carey: A Literary Companion, page 100
• olives of veal
• I jazzed up a supermarket pizza with olives and fried onions.From the entry jazz up
• The economy of Alma in Israel is based on hillculture: vineyards, deciduous fruit, olives, and vegetables.From the entry hillculture
• That is what my eating abroad had been: fearful, niminy-piminy slivers of prosciutto and single olives.2018, Laura Freeman, The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite. From the entry niminy-piminy

Meaning of olive

1. noun A tree of species Olea europaea cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.
2. noun The small oval fruit of this tree, eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green).
3. noun The wood of the olive tree.

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Questions about the plural of olive

What is the plural of olive?

The plural of olive is olives.

Is olive countable?

Olive is a countable noun.