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Olive tree

noun

A tree of the genus Olea cultivated for its fruit.

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European olive tree

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"Olive tree" Quotes from Famous Books

... his wife home they lived, as the custom was, in the palace of his father, King Laertes, but Ulysses, with his own hands, built a chamber for Penelope and himself. There grew a great olive tree in the inner court of the palace, and its stem was as large as one of the tall carved pillars of the hall. Round about this tree Ulysses built the chamber, and finished it with close-set stones, and roofed it over, and made close-fastening doors. Then he cut off ...

— Tales of Troy: Ulysses the Sacker of Cities • Andrew Lang

... description of the surroundings, wherein we may observe the poet's employment of nature as a setting for the returned Ulysses. There is the secure haven shutting off the winds and waves of the sea; at the end of the haven stands the olive tree, product of culture, and hinting the civilized world, which Ulysses now enters; it was a tree sacred to Pallas in later Greek legend, and, doubtless, in Homer's time also. Next came the cave of the Nymphs called Naiads, with its curious shapes of stone, the work of the ...

— Homer's Odyssey - A Commentary • Denton J. Snider

Words linked to "Olive tree" : European olive tree, Olea cunninghamii, Olea, white maire, olive, Olea europaea, fruit tree, black maire, Olea lanceolata, genus Olea