Olive (disambiguation)
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Olive is a genus of about 20 species of small trees in the family Oleaceae, and the fruit of those trees. Olive may also refer to:
Color
- Olive (color), a dark yellowish-green color
- Olive skin, a type of skin color
Places
In the United States
- Olive, California
- Olive, Indiana
- Olive, Missouri
- Olive, Montana
- Olive, New York
- Olive, Oklahoma
- Olive, Virginia
- Olive, West Virginia
- Olive Township (disambiguation), several places in the United States
Elsewhere
- Olive Island, an island in South Australia
- Mount Olive (disambiguation), various mountains
People
- Olive (martyr) (Blessed Olive), a Catholic martyr from Italy
- Olive, Lady Baillie (1899–1974), Anglo-American heiress, landowner and hostess
- Olive Cook (1912–2002), British writer and artist
- DJ Olive, disk jockey and turntablist
- Olive Edmundson, British horticulturalist
- Jean-Baptiste Olive (1848–1936), French painter
- Milton L. Olive, III (1946–1965), United States Army soldier during the Vietnam War
- Rich Olive (1949–2016), American politician
- Olive Sturgess (born 1933), Canadian-American actress
- Olive Zorian (1916–1965), English violinist
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
- Olive, heroine of Olive, the Other Reindeer, an animated Christmas special
- Olive, The Bash St. Kids' school cook*Olive Kitteridge, the title character of a novel by Elizabeth Strout
- Agent Olive, a character from the show Odd Squad in Season 1
- Olive Hornby, a minor character important to the backstory of Harry Potter character Moaning Myrtle
- Olive Oyl, Popeye's girlfriend
- Olive Penderghast, the protagonist of the 2010 film Easy A
- Olive Rudge, a character from the TV show On The Buses
- Olive Snook, a character from the TV show Pushing Daisies
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Olive (band), an English electronic music group
- Olive (magazine), a British food magazine
Biology
- Olive, nickname for the olivary body, part of the brain (brainstem)
- Liasis olivaceus or olive python, the second largest Australian python
- Olive baboon, Papio anubis, a species of baboon
- Olive bee-eater, a near passerine bee-eater species in the genus Merops
- Olive colobus, a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae
- Olive ibis, a species of bird in the family Threskiornithidae found in parts of Africa
- Olive leaf, which is used medicinally
- Olive long-tailed cuckoo, a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae
- Olive snail, a family of medium to large predatory sea snails
- Olive snout-burrower, a species of frog in the family Hemisotidae
- Olive sparrow, Arremonops rufivirgatus, a species of American sparrow in the family Emberizidae
- Olive thrush, one of the most common members of the thrush family (Turdidae)
- Olive whistler, Pachycephala olivacea, a species of bird of the whistler family Pachycephalidae that is native to southeastern Australia
- Olive woodpecker, a species of bird in the family Picidae found in parts of Africa
- Saint Helena olive, a tree in the family Rhamnaceae
Other uses
- Olive, a name for a ring-shaped gasket used in plumbing
- Mono Olive, a subproject of the Mono project
- Tropical Storm Olive (disambiguation), the name of eleven tropical cyclones
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