Olive is a genus of about 20 species of small trees in the family Oleaceae, and the fruit of those trees.

Olive may also refer to:

Color

  • Olive (color), a dark yellowish-green color
  • Olive skin, a type of skin color

Places

United States

  • Olive, California
  • Olive, Indiana
  • Olive, Missouri
  • Olive, Montana
  • Olive, New York
  • Olive, Oklahoma
  • Olive, Virginia
  • Olive, West Virginia
  • Olive Green (disambiguation), two places in Ohio and one in England
  • Olive Township (disambiguation), several places in the United States

Elsewhere

  • Olive Island, an island in South Australia
  • Mount Olive (disambiguation), various mountains

People

  • Olive (given name)
  • Olive (surname)
  • Olive (martyr) (Blessed Olive), a Catholic martyr from Italy
  • Olive, Lady Baillie (1899–1974), Anglo-American heiress, landowner and hostess

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

  • Olive, heroine of Olive, the Other Reindeer, an animated Christmas special
  • Olive, The Bash St. Kids' school cook
  • Olive Doyle, a main character from the show A.N.T. Farm
  • Olive, a main character from the show Elinor Wonders Why
  • Olive, a character in the animated series Adventure Time: Distant Lands episode "BMO"
  • Olive Kitteridge, the title character of a novel by Elizabeth Strout
  • Agent Olive, a character from the show Odd Squad in season 1
  • Olive Hoover, a main character in the film Little Miss Sunshine
  • Olive Hornby, a minor character important to the backstory of Harry Potter character Moaning Myrtle
  • Olive Oyl, Popeye's girlfriend
  • Olive Penderghast, the protagonist of the 2010 film Easy A
  • Olive Rozalski, a main character from the 2019 TV show Sydney to the Max
  • Olive Rudge, a character from the 1969 TV show On The Buses
  • Olive Snook, a character from the 2007 TV show Pushing Daisies
  • Olive Stone, a character from the 2018 TV show Manifest

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Olive (band), an English electronic music group
  • Olive (film), a 1988 Australian television film
  • Olive (food magazine), a British food magazine
  • Olive (fashion magazine), a Japanese fashion magazine
  • Olive, a 2017 album by Sky-Hi

Biology

Plants

  • Saint Helena olive, a tree in the family Rhamnaceae
  • Canarium album (Chinese olive), a tree in the family Burseraceae with fruit resembling mediterranean olives
  • Olive leaf, a plant that is used medicinally

Animals

  • Olive baboon, Papio anubis, a species of baboon
  • Olive colobus, a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae
  • Olive ibis, a species of bird in the family Threskiornithidae found in parts of Africa
  • Olive long-tailed cuckoo, a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae
  • Olive sparrow, Arremonops rufivirgatus, a species of American sparrow in the family Emberizidae
  • Olive thrush, one of the most common members of the thrush family (Turdidae)
  • Olive whistler, Pachycephala olivacea, a species of bird of the whistler family Pachycephalidae that is native to southeastern Australia
  • Olive woodpecker, a species of bird in the family Picidae, found in parts of Africa
  • Olive bee-eater, a species of bird in the family Meropidae, found in parts of Africa
  • Olive python, Liasis olivaceus, the second largest Australian python
  • Olive snout-burrower, a species of frog in the family Hemisotidae
  • Olive snail, a family of medium to large predatory sea snails

Other uses

  • Airplane olive, Hong Kong snack
  • Olive (1802 ship), launched in Calcutta
  • Olive (software), a free, open-source and non-linear video editing software
  • Olivary body, nicknamed the olive, a part of the brain (brainstem)
  • Olive, a compression ring used in plumbing
  • Mono Olive, a subproject of the Mono project
  • Tropical Storm Olive (disambiguation), the name of eleven tropical cyclones