Meanings
nounblack olive (plural black olives)
plural black olives
- An olive picked after it has ripened; as opposed to a green olive which is picked before ripening.
- Terminalia buceras, a tree of the Caribbean.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounolives picked ripe and cured in brine then dried or pickled or preserved canned or in oil
Similar
ripe olive
Broader
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Catalan oliva negra
- oliva negraolive picked after it has ripened
Chinese Mandarin 黑橄欖 /黑橄榄
- 黑橄欖 /黑橄榄 (hēigǎnlǎn)olive picked after it has ripened
Finnish musta oliivi
- musta oliiviolive picked after it has ripened
French olive noire
- olive noireolive picked after it has ripened
Italian oliva nera
- oliva neraolive picked after it has ripened
Polish czarna oliwka
- czarna oliwkaolive picked after it has ripened
Spanish aceituna negra
- aceituna negraolive picked after it has ripened
Turkish siyah zeytin, kara zeytin
- siyah zeytinolive picked after it has ripened
- kara zeytinolive picked after it has ripened
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APA
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“black olive.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black%20olive. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “black olive,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black%20olive.
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