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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • (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. ...
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  • #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

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