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OLEASTER

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Meaning:

Any of several shrubs of the genus Elaeagnus having silver-white twigs and yellow flowers followed by olivelike fruits

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Nouns denoting plants

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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