Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Olive-green.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In zoology and botany, of an olive-green color; olive-green.
- Applied to complexion, of a dull tawny color, with a greenish tinge in the shadows.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having the color of a green olive.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Resembling the olive; of the color of the olive; olive-green.
Examples
“Fundulus notatus and F. olivaceous, are they separate species?”
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“Thallus thin and inconspicuous, or becoming thick and more prominent, composed of rounded and often crowded or even heaped granules, these frequently compacted into a continuous or scattered, verrucose and often chinky, green-gray to olivaceous crust; apothecia small to large, 0.6 to”
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
“The = gills = are adnate, sometimes decurrent by a little tooth, rather crowded, narrow, whitish, then dull yellow, and becoming dark from the spores, purplish to olivaceous.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“The flesh, which is white when young, changes to greenish yellow and finally brownish, with usually an olivaceous tinge, as the spores ripen.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“-- "Above olivaceous, mixed with yellow grey; white below; sides of the body with yellowish-white lines formed of interrupted spots, the upper rows of which are joined to those of the opposite side by some transverse spots; ears reddish-brown”
“-- General colour fulvous olivaceous, paler beneath and with an ashy tinge; ears with a narrow margin of white (_Jerdon_.)”
“The eggs are regular ovals, with a pale-greenish ground, blotched and spotted with a somewhat olivaceous brown.”
“Very regular, slightly elongated ovals, with scarcely any gloss on them, the ground greenish white, but everywhere thickly streaked and mottled and freckled over, most thickly about the large end, with a dull pale slightly olivaceous brown intermingled with brownish, or in some specimens faintly purplish grey.”
“The single egg which it contained at the time of my finding it was a broad oval in shape, pale green, boldly blotched with blackish over spots of olive and olivaceous brown, mingled with linear markings of the same, under which there were small clouds and blotches of bluish grey.”
“The eggs, five in number, are of a pale greenish-white colour, spotted all over with olivaceous inky-brown spots and specks, increasing in size and forming a zone at the large end.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘olivaceous’.
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phrontistery - o
from phrontistery.info
oakum, oakus, oast, obambulate, obdormition, obduracy, obedible, obedientiary, obeism, obeliscolychny, obelize, obelus and 504 more...
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Archaic Colours
Words for colours that have fallen out of use.
aeneous, croceate, cretaceous, cramoisy, corbeau, coquelicot, coccineous, claret, cinerious, chrysochlorous, chlorochrous, cesious and 128 more...
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Olive
The edible kind, and related terms.
florence oil, olive, oliva, muffuletta, sweet oil, pistou, pesto, holy oil, tapenade, pimola, olive-clad, gremolata and 57 more...
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mycological hues
rubescent, lutescent, cinereous, avellaneous, fuscous, fulvous, sordid, lurid, livid, ochre, ochraceous, vinaceous and 6 more...
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Words of Dinosaurology
This quickly got bigger and weirder than originally intended, so now it's housing terms that relate to the study of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. See also Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, Ichthy...
zygopophyses, ziphodont, plesiomorphic, cleidoic, endothermy, ectothermy, viviparous, vertebrae, cervical, dorsal, sacral, caudal and 628 more...
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State Spelling Bee 2011
Words from the California State Spelling Bee in 2011, from which I got fourth place.
cymbidium, jurisprudence, entourage, cauterize, dressage, roux, pomaceous, malfeasance, jactitation, eclogue, caryotid, obloquy and 126 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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nfrank's Words
antediluvian, equivocate, inchoate, denouement, effulgent, edify, endemic, palimpsest, apropos, circumnavigate, circumlocution, cognoscente and 484 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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Color adjectives
A complement to Chromonyms and Chromonyms 2, which are restricted to nouns that have appeared in at least one dictionary. If a word can be either a noun or an adjective, I list it as a noun. This l...
hyacinthine, griseous, glaucous, verdant, virescent, amaranthine, miniaceous, rubiginous, ferruginous, ruddy, caesious, cyanotic and 214 more...
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Colors
cerise, carnelian, florid, claret, watchet, rosaceous, coquelicot, vermilion, celadon, nacreous, lapis, viridescent and 132 more...
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PPV List
sausage party, sausage fest, viridescent, somewhen, soporific, mendacious, loquacious, tenuous, serendipitous, decrepitude, bibulous, castigation and 23 more...
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Uncommon Color Names
Tyrian, aubergine, vermillion, gentian blue, chartreuse, cerulean, carmine, gamboge, cinnabar, feldgrau, malachite, periwinkle and 41 more...
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Green
Words meaning green.
olivascent, olivescent, olivaceous, olive, virid, glaucous, glaucescent, virent, virescent, viridescent, herbaceous, smaragdine and 8 more...
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my words
ubiquitous, devout, dyslexia, suave, debonair, finagle, plush, accede, prodigy, persona, lethargic, caricature and 84 more...
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