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OLEASTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several shrubs of the genus Elaeagnus having silver-white twigs and yellow flowers followed by olivelike fruits
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("oleaster" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oleaster"):
Elaeagnus latifolia; wild olive (erect shrub or climber of India and China with red olivelike fruit)
Elaeagnus commutata; silver-bush; silver berry; silverberry; silverbush (deciduous unarmed North American shrub with silvery leaves and fruits)
Elaeagnus augustifolia; Russian olive; silver berry (deciduous shrubby tree of Europe and western Asia having grey leaves and small yellow fruits covered in silvery scales; sometimes spiny)
Holonyms ("oleaster" is a member of...):
Elaeagnus; genus Elaeagnus (oleaster)
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