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Definition of Oleasters
1. oleaster [n] - See also: oleaster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oleasters
Literary usage of Oleasters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From Kulja, Across the Tian Shan to Lob-Nor by Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich Przhevalʹskiĭ, Thomas Douglas Forsyth (1879)
"... Kaidu-gol—Arrival at Korla—Jealousy and distrust of officials—Desert of Lob—
Hydrography of Lower Tarim—Barren country—Oleasters —Monotonous scenery. ..."
2. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1890)
"(Oleasters.) Group 1. " Represents the wild type, which is not worth cultivating,
... The first division treats of the Oleasters (the Olea europ. ..."
3. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)
"It is for these autumnal effects that I wish to secure proper employment for
alders, birches, oleasters, and willows. Do you know the oleaster or ..."
4. Trees and Shrubs of Prospect Park by Louis Harman Peet (1902)
"Beyond the oleasters, on the right of the Walk are tulip tree, ash-leaved maple,
sweet syringa, European larch, large flowered syringa, European larch again ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1863)
"... (as now) the stone-pine and the carob-trees and grey oleasters. To- cypre-s.
The former is frequent- gether with these we have the vari- ly represented, ..."
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