different between oleaster vs silverberry

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin oleaster.

Noun

oleaster (plural oleasters)

1. A plant in the family Elaeagnaceae,
   1. especially, a plant in the genus Elaeagnus,
      1. especially, the species Elaeagnus angustifolia.
2. Cultivated olive trees that have re-naturalized, sometimes treated as a species Olea oleaster, the wild olive.

Synonyms

• (Elaeagnus angustifolia): silverberry, Russian olive

Translations

See also

• oil-tree

Anagrams

• areolets

Latin

Etymology

From ole(a) (“olive tree”) +? -aster.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /o.le?as.ter/, [???e?äs?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o.le?as.ter/, [?l???st??r]

Noun

oleaster m (genitive oleastr?); second declension

1. wild olive tree

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Descendants

• Italian: olivastro
  • ? Albanian: ullastër, ullashtër
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: ullastre
• Sicilian: agghiastru
• ? English: oleaster
• ? Italian: oleastro
• ? Spanish: oleastro

References

• oleaster in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• oleaster in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• oleaster in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• silver berry

Etymology

silver +? berry

Noun

silverberry (plural silverberries)

1. A plant in the genus Elaeagnus, of about 50-70 species of deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees with alternate leaves, primarily native to temperate and subtropical regions of Asia.
2. The fruit of such a plant.

Synonyms

• (Elaeagnus): oleaster

Translations