silver(y) oleaster

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a silvery-gray shrub, Elaeagnus argentea, common in the west.

Quotations

1830

Silver Oleaster [is] a spreading shrub about three or four feet high, of very unusual appearance.

1852

The . . . silvery oleaster (Elaeagnus argentea) ... and Amelanchier grow on banks that in Europe would be covered with gorse and broom.