| elaeagnus | <botany> A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. A Boeotian marsh plant; olive + sacred, pure. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| elaeis | <botany> A genus of palms. Elaeis Guineensis, the African oil palm, is a tree twenty or thirty feet high, with immense pinnate leaves and large masses of fruit. The berries are rather larger than olives, and when boiled in water yield the orange-red palm oil. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Olive tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| elaeolite | <chemical> A variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish colour. Elaeolite syenite, a kind of syenite characterised by the presence of elaeolite. Origin: Gr. Olive oil, oil. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Elaeophora schneideri | The bloodworm of sheep; a species of nematodes causing filarial dermatosis. Origin: Mod. L. Elaea, fr. G. Elaia, olive, + agnos, sheep, + phoros, to bear (05 Mar 2000) |
| elaeoptene | <chemistry> The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts. Alternative forms: elaoptene. Origin: Gr. Olive oil, oil + winged, fleeting. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |