European olive tree - evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruitsolive - one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish genus Olea, Olea - evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits olive tree - a tree of the genus Olea cultivated for its fruit olive - small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil |