OLIVE    橄欖

[Olea sativa], a small oval drupe, with bitter pulp abounding in oil, and hard stone; valuable as a source of oil, and also eaten pickled in an unripe state.
Old Chinese Criteria
000 左思 mentions the olive tree.
Modern Chinese Criteria
橄欖 青果 諫果 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • FRUIT　RIPE SEED ON PLANT or TREE, TYPICALLY HARVESTED by HUMANS FOR EATING. (anc: 3/0, child: 9)
  • Not defined　 (anc: 2/0, child: 203)
  • PRIME　 (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
Other Hypernyms
  • Not defined　 (anc: 2/0, child: 203)
  • PRIME　 (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
  • 　 (anc: 0/0, child: 0)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 5.78

    • Words (1 items)

    橄欖  gǎn lǎn OC: klaamʔ ɡ-raamʔ MC: kɑm lɑm 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPolive