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oleaster

DEFINITIONS OF: oleaster

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

Types:
Elaeagnus latifolia, wild olive
erect shrub or climber of India and China with red olivelike fruit
Elaeagnus commutata, silver berry, silver-bush, 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
Type of:
bush, shrub
a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
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