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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK], [GREEK].]

(Bot.)

A genus of evergreen plants growing along the shores of the Mediterranean, and bearing a fruit resembling that of the olive.

Noun.

A genus of plants, Mock privet.

See also: Phillyrea

phillyrea ‎(plural phillyreas)

(botany) Any of the genus Phillyrea of evergreen plants with an olive-like fruit, native to the Mediterranean.