title: Oleaster
text: # Oleaster
  
  Oleaster, signifying a plant like an olive, but less valuable (cf. poetaster), may be applied to:
  
  * Feral olive trees that have been allowed to run wild
  * Olea oleaster, the wild olive
  * Various species of Elaeagnus, notably Elaeagnus angustifolia, the Russian olive, the dried fruits of which are eaten during Nowruz
  