olivary noun & adjective. ['ɒlɪv(ǝ)ri] LME.
[Latin olivarius pertaining to olives, from oliva OLIVE noun¹: see -ARY¹.]
A. noun. Medicine. A cautery with an oval head. Long rare or obsolete. LME.
b. adjective. Anatomy. Shaped like an olive, oval. Only in collocations below. M19.
olivary body either of two oval swellings on each side of the upper medulla oblongata; also called olive. olivary nucleus the mass of grey matter within an olivary body.

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