olive oil

nounA2Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

Olive oil is the oil pressed from a small green or black fruit. A bottle of olive oil.

Extra virgin means it was pressed without heat and passed a taste test. Olive oil goes off in light and heat, which is why the good bottles are dark.

Definitions of olive oil

1nounolive oilThe oil pressed from a small green or black fruit.A2
“The olive oil was pressed nine miles from where they ate it.”

olive oil is an oil.

Olive plus oil; the older English form was oil of olives, and the word oil itself comes from the Latin for olive.

From olive + oil. Compare earlier oil of olives.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

nounA2Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

Olive oil is the oil pressed from a small green or black fruit. A bottle of olive oil.

Extra virgin means it was pressed without heat and passed a taste test. Olive oil goes off in light and heat, which is why the good bottles are dark.

1nounolive oilThe oil pressed from a small green or black fruit.A2
“The olive oil was pressed nine miles from where they ate it.”

olive oil is an oil.

Olive plus oil; the older English form was oil of olives, and the word oil itself comes from the Latin for olive.

From olive + oil. Compare earlier oil of olives.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA