QUEEN OLIVE Definition & Meaning

queen olive

noun

any large, meaty olive suitable for pickling or processing.
such an olive grown especially in the area of Seville, Spain.

queen olive

noun

a variety of olive having large fleshy fruit suitable for pickling, esp one from around Seville in Spain

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Origin of queen olive¹

First recorded in 1910–15

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This may come as a surprise to audiences who warmed to Breslin as bespectacled and adorable aspiring beauty pageant queen Olive Hoover in the 2006 film, "Little Miss Sunshine".

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Just at the top of the spinal cord, where it passes into the skull and joins with the brain, it swells out into a sort of knob, about the size of a queen olive or the head of a gold-headed cane, which is known as the medulla, or "pith."

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