Word Meanings - QUEENOLIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Properly, a kind of superior olive grown in the region of Seville, Spain. It is large size and oblong shape with a small but long pit; it is cured when green, keeps well, and has a delicate flavor. Loosely, any olive of similar character.

• Currency
  A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.
• Greenshank
  A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.
• Largesse
  Liberality; generosity; bounty.
• Cursory
  Running about; not stationary.
• Oliverian
  An adherent of Oliver Cromwell.
• Curable
  Capable of being cured; admitting remedy.
• Curtelasse
  A corruption of Cutlass.
• Small
  Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river.
• Curatorship
  The office of a curator.
• Curvant
  Bowed; bent; curved.
• CURIAL
  Of or pertaining to the papal curia; as, the curial etiquette of the Vatican. -- n.
• Curding
  of Curd
• Curviform
  Having a curved form.
• OBLONGOVATE
  Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.
• Flavored
  of Flavor
• Curled
  of Curl
• Greengage
  A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
• Current
  Running or moving rapidly.

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