Search results for "Olive Tree" - New World Encyclopedia
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- a lamp at the end to be used for burning olive oil. This golden menorah ... First, it has been suggested that the menorah originated as the tree ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 16:09, 9 November 2022
- Olive is the common name for a evergreen tree or shrub, Olea europaea, in the flowering plant family Oleaceae, characterized by small size, squat ...31 KB (4,932 words) - 00:21, 18 November 2022
- in the flowering plant family Oleaceae (olive family), popularly cultivated ... The plant family to which forsythia belong, Oleaceae, or the olive ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 06:35, 1 April 2024
- species results in a 30 percent increase in tree height and girth (Hemery 2001). ... effects are felt most strongly inside the tree's "drip line" ...19 KB (2,858 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- quot; literally means "tree snake.") The black mamba ... black at all; normally, mambas have a dark olive, olive green, gray brown ...12 KB (1,749 words) - 11:00, 9 March 2023
- Athena, on the other hand, offered them an olive tree. Seeing both options, the Athenians (as represented by their king, Cecrops) accepted the olive ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 05:44, 30 November 2022
- resulting in something that tasted like olive oil. But the Book of Exodus ... collected the resin of the tamarisk tree as mann es-sama ("heavenly ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 02:56, 6 November 2022
- ** Two of the subspecies of olive-backed pipit (a bird) are Anthus ... ** The tree European black elder is Sambucus nigra subsp. nigra and ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:46, 11 January 2023
- (Sequoiadendron giganteum) is the largest tree in the world in terms of total ... but include members of many plant taxa. A tree can be defined as a large ...33 KB (4,675 words) - 12:40, 18 April 2023
- when the wings are stretched. The bill is olive gray and legs blueish-gray. ... at farms. The nest is in a hole in a tree, fence post, or even a log ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 18:36, 22 November 2023
- powder of nuts from the Reeta (Sapindus) tree, a powder used by Indians ... Castile soap, made from olive oil, was produced in Europe as early ...26 KB (3,968 words) - 21:42, 30 January 2023
- Dolphins, Skipping Frogs, Common Toads, and Tree Frogs. an abundance reptiles as well, including Olive Ridley Turtles, Sea Snakes ...14 KB (1,909 words) - 23:31, 26 February 2023
- dark brown to yellowish, and include dark olive-brown, pale live, and yellow ... Pangolins include both terrestrial (ground-dwelling) and arboreal ...14 KB (1,993 words) - 11:13, 11 March 2023
- Almond is a small deciduous tree, Prunus amygdalus (syn. Prunus dulcis ... plants as apples, berries, the hawthorn tree, the mountain ash, and many others. ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 20:41, 26 March 2024
- #039;s best selling book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, shone light on India's rapid transition from a third world, underdeveloped country of nearly ...9 KB (1,379 words) - 06:42, 13 June 2023
- Another method used to established the date of eruption is tree-ring ... researchers analyzed material from an olive tree that was found buried beneath ...26 KB (3,980 words) - 18:52, 9 November 2022
- from impaling on a stake to affixing to a tree, to an upright pole (what ... on a cross made of olivewood or on an olive tree. Since olive trees are ...29 KB (4,573 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- * Tea tree * Thyme * Wintergreen Resin * Frankincense * Myrrh ... being applied. Common carrier oils include olive, almond, hazelnut, and grapeseed ...16 KB (2,270 words) - 12:06, 5 March 2021
- xiii:7), it contained a sacred grove of olive trees dedicated to Athena ... by the Roman Sulla, who axed the sacred olive trees of Athene in 86 B.C ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 07:13, 14 June 2023
- vines comprising the plant genus Jasminum of the olive family (Oleaceae). The term also refers to the perfume made from these plants. ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 10:00, 1 April 2024
- Mediterranean plants such as cypresses and olive trees are found. The region ... rock formations. Ancient cypresses and wild olive trees grow at the higher ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 16:15, 25 August 2022
- [[Image:The Tree of Yggdrasil.jpg|thumb|The title page of Olive Bray ... * Bray, Olive. (Ed. & trans.) (1908). The Elder or Poetic Edda: ...21 KB (3,478 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
- equated with boa); Sanzinia (Madagascar tree boa; sometimes equated with ... The primary overall color of Eunectes murinus is an olive green, with ...16 KB (2,471 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- to prey, but the height or species of tree is not as important as an ... a bald eagle grasping arrows and an olive branch with its talons. ...30 KB (4,424 words) - 04:17, 11 January 2023
- however, offered them the first domesticated olive tree. The Athenians (or their king, Cecrops) accepted the olive tree and along with it Athena as their ...30 KB (4,535 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- examined. "The pieces came all together from olive." ... This states that the wood of the True Cross came from a seed of the ...22 KB (3,738 words) - 18:26, 2 May 2023
- *Olive Baboon (Papio anubis) *Grey-cheeked Mangabey (Lophocebus albigena) ==Notes== ==References== * NASA Earth Observatory. [http://earthobservatory ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
- downwards into the water. The great forest tree has a shoot, which in the ... on Pacific atolls. Another example is the olive (Olea europaea) in the Mediterranean ...33 KB (5,220 words) - 01:41, 9 January 2023
- Zerubbabel and Joshua to be the "two olive trees" he had seen in ... *[http://www.loebtree.com/kings.html#z Loeb Family Tree:] Zerubbabel ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:52, 13 June 2023
- species of mammal including African Bush Elephant, Olive Baboon, Patas Monkey, Tantalus Monkey, Roan Antelope, Western Hartebeest, Lion, African Buffalo ...13 KB (1,893 words) - 00:54, 17 April 2023
- The word song in songpyeon means pine tree in Korean. The pine needles ... became popular, as well as sets of olive oil, natural vinegar, ginger ...17 KB (2,442 words) - 22:00, 10 December 2023
- include black and dull shades of green, olive, brown, purple, and red. ... sand. They form the newest branch on the echinoid tree. ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 17:33, 25 January 2023
- on the third flight, she came back with an olive branch in her beak, showing ... 1876 explorer James Bryce climbed above the tree line and found a slab of hand ...17 KB (2,732 words) - 18:11, 11 November 2023
- :Though the fig tree does not bud ::and there are no grapes on the vines, ::though the olive crop fails ::and the fields produce no food, ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 00:09, 19 November 2023
- vleeta. It is boiled, then served with olive oil and lemon like a salad ... An amaranth planted in a garden near a Rose-Tree, thus addressed ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 00:49, 9 January 2023
- Night. Other works from the series include Olive Trees with the Alpilles in ... as an "abstraction." Referring to Olive Trees with the Alpilles in ...53 KB (8,229 words) - 20:24, 3 May 2023
- when they found that the bark of a gum tree in Malaysia showed promise ... * Olive Ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) * Otago Skink (Oligosoma otagense) ...22 KB (2,981 words) - 16:35, 5 January 2021
- including the remarkable cabbage tree species. The flora of Saint ... [[Image:Cabbage tree.jpg|thumb|300px|Cabbage tree.]] Ascension Island ...33 KB (4,923 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- cooked on the parrilla and seasoned with olive oil and salt. Beer, wine ... Mediterranean gourmet cooking; thus olive oil is a key part of the ...43 KB (6,886 words) - 08:03, 20 September 2023
- By some reports, there were acres of apple, peach, olive, pear, and fig tree orchards and two acres of Castille roses grown from cuttings given by the ...21 KB (3,394 words) - 04:21, 3 May 2024
- Thomas L. Friedman 2000. The Lexus and the olive tree. (New York, ... * Friedman, Thomas L. 2000. The Lexus and the olive tree. New York ...48 KB (7,076 words) - 03:33, 24 July 2023
- of which was the tournefortia" (or tree heliotrope). The expedition ... Battle of Wake Island: 1941 Olive Drab. They were armed with six used ...28 KB (4,195 words) - 22:06, 3 May 2023
- ::Under a pine tree, by a rosebush, ::there is a throne made entirely ... *** La Chanson d'Ide et d'Olive *** Godin ** Hugues Capet ...21 KB (3,315 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- himself and Penelope, out of an ancient, huge olive tree trunk that used to grow on the spot before the bridal chamber was built. His detailed description ...23 KB (3,768 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- drafted a peace proposal known as the Olive Branch Petition. The proposal ... " He alighted, walked over to an oak tree and acted as if he was shaking ...42 KB (6,393 words) - 10:46, 13 December 2023
- As in many regions of Greece, viticulture and olive groves are significant; ... include the chestnut, cypress, oak, olive tree, pine, plane, and tamarisk ...64 KB (9,298 words) - 20:14, 29 April 2024
- candle was more common in northern Europe, and olive oil lamps more common in southern Europe and around the Mediterranean Sea. Candle makers were known ...26 KB (4,080 words) - 19:18, 25 November 2023
- sent out the dove, and it returned with an olive leaf in its beak, and he ... more enduringly, the dove and olive branch came to symbolize the Holy ...50 KB (7,876 words) - 00:06, 5 March 2024
- discovered that almost all of the ritual olive oil had been profaned. They ... in the United States. A decorated tree has come to be called a "Hanukkah ...28 KB (4,314 words) - 19:38, 29 January 2022
- of the "rosary pea" or "bead tree." Today, the vast majority ... Saint James at Santiago de Compostela, or olive seeds from the Garden of ...35 KB (5,735 words) - 21:43, 16 April 2023
