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Etymology

From Middle English oliaster, olyaster, from Latin oleaster.

Pronunciation

Noun

oleaster (plural oleasters)

  1. A plant in the family Elaeagnaceae,
    1. especially, a plant in the genus Elaeagnus,
      1. especially, the type species Elaeagnus angustifolia.
  2. Cultivated olive trees that have re-naturalized, sometimes treated as a species Olea oleaster, the wild olive.

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See also

  • oil-tree

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Latin

Etymology

From ole(a) (olive tree) + -aster.

Pronunciation

Noun

oleaster m (genitive oleastrī); second declension

  1. wild olive tree

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Descendants

References

  • oleaster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • oleaster”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • oleaster”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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