olive pit
Tapenade's discarded center
The olive pit is the hard seed at the center of an olive, removed before eating or sometimes left in for flavor during cooking.
Pitted olives have had this stone extracted.
She cracked a tooth on an olive pit.
In British English, this is an olive stone.
- stoneSolid earth fragment
- seedEmbryonic plant capsule
- drupeSeed-bearing fleshy fruit
- fleshSoft body matter
- brineWater saturated with sodium
green · kalamata · martini · spitting · orchard · Mediterranean · oil · pressing · grove · cheek · cured · tapenade · dirty martini · stuffed · salty · bitter · core · kernel
- oliveskalamata, extra virgin, virgin oil, cold-pressed oil, mission
- pits
- seed casingsalmond shell, walnut shell, peanut shell, coconut shell, pod
- fruit seedsapple seeds, grape seeds, watermelon seeds, papaya seeds, pomegranate seeds
- oil sourcescanola, sunflower, soybean, peanut, sesame
- tree seedsacorn, acorns, beechnut, pine seed, maple seed
part of olive fruit
olive pitolive skin
Warm brownish-green complexion
pericarp · olive brine · stuffing · pimiento