STRONGS G65:
ἀγριέλαιος , -ον, (ἄγριος and ἔλαιος or ἐλαία, like ἀγριάμπελος);
1. of or belonging to the oleaster, or wild olive (σκυτάλην ἀγριέλαιον, Anthol. 9, 237, 4; [cf. Lob. Paralip., p. 376)]; spoken of a scion, Romans 11:17.
2. As a substantive ἡ ἀγριέλαιος the oleaster, the wild olive; (opposed to καλλιέλαιος [cf. Aristotle, plant. 1, 6]), also called by the Greeks κότινος, Romans 11:24; cf. Fritzsche on Romans, vol. ii. 495ff [See B. D. under the word Olive, and Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, under the word Olive. The latter says, p. 377, ‘the wild olive must not be confounded with the Oleaster or Oil-tree’.]
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