Olive (color)

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Olive is a kind of muddy green color. It can be made by mixing a darker color (like brown) with green. The color of old U.S. Army field uniforms is a shade of olive called olive drab that was used because it was hard to see against trees and grass.

The most common place you will find the color olive is on an olive. It is the color of the outside olive. An olives center is usually brown or sometimes orange or red.

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Olive is the most common color for showing barf.

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