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The olive, botanical name Olea europaea, meaning 'European olive', is a species of small tree or shrub in the family Oleaceae, found traditionally in the Mediterranean Basin, with wild subspecies found further afield in Africa and western Asia. When in shrub form, it is known as Olea europaea ' Montra ', dwarf olive, or little olive.
The list contains 1,603 communities in 44 states, with 1,101 of these having Spanish as the plurality language, 89 an Indo-European language other than English or Spanish, 35 an Asian or Pacific Islander language, 176 a language not yet listed, and 206 with an English plurality but not a majority.
Native olive, foliage & fruit. Olea paniculata, commonly known as the native olive, is a plant of the genus Olea and a relative of the olive.It grows natively in Pakistan and southwestern China through tropical Asia to Australia (Queensland and New South Wales) and the Pacific islands of New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Lord Howe Island.
In 2023, Spanish speakers made up about three-fifths of all speakers of languages other than English in the United States. In 2017, the U.S. Census Bureau published information on the number of speakers of some 350 languages as surveyed by the ACS from 2009 to 2013, [ 9 ] [ 10 ] but it does not regularly tabulate and report data for that many ...
Kalamata olives are a widely recognized and much-loved type of Greek olive that grow on the Kalamon tree and hail from the Peloponnese region in southern Greece. (Note: no olives grown outside ...
a small, brown olive native to Arbeca, grown in Aragon and Catalonia, Spain, good for eating and for oil. Arbosana: Spain a Spanish variety commonly grown for oil production alongside Arbequina and others, including in the United States. Ascolano: Italy A cold-hardy table variety from the Le Marche region of Italy enjoyed as a table olive.
In Little Italy, Chicago, some Italian language signage is visible (e.g. Banca Italiana).. The first Italian Americans began to immigrate en masse around 1880. The first Italian immigrants, mainly from Sicily, Calabria and other parts of Southern Italy, were largely men, and many planned to return to Italy after making money in the US, so the speaker population of Italian was not always ...
Since the cultivar is largely local in scope, it also has few synonyms. The olives grown in the region around the town of Nyons are normally referred to as Olive de Nyons, or simply Nyons, and this is the name under which the olive is best known to the rest of the world. [2] Another synonym, used in parts of Vaucluse, is Olive de Carpentras. [3]