olive-branched

adjective

Adorned with one or more olive branches.

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of olive-branch
adjectiveolive-branched (comparative more olive-branched, superlative most olive-branched)

comparative more olive-branched · superlative most olive-branched

  1. Adorned with one or more olive branches.

    Orange trees and apricot trees huddled amid the gray-silver leaves of gnarled olive-branched trees.

    2013, Lynny Harris, Midbar III, page 245
    2 more examples

    Indeed, in the 1960's, Blacks and other minorities extended, by and large, the olive-branched claw of the Eagle, our national symbol.

    1971, The Catholic Charities Review - Volumes 55-56, page 8

    Members of San Francisco's considerable French colony were at tables flanked by the French tricolor and the Stars and Stripes, with the olive-branched symbol of the UN in the center.

    1978, Laddie Marshack, A crowd of lovers, page 114
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