Oliver the wooden rinoceros!

[Roses Ablaze]

Sorry for the random title, I could not resist (stupid Firefox not letting me use the apostrophe).

But seriously, why do the kanji that make up "olive" mean "wood" and "rinoceros"? I have never associated olives with rinoceroses. I mean, things like water + stone = cyrstal make sense, but this one really does not.

 

[Zhen Lin]

First of all, you'll have to tell me what word that is, because the word for rhinoceros is 犀.

Secondly, not all words spelt in kanji are actually composed of those kanji.

 

[Roses Ablaze]

http://www.animelab.com/anime.manga/dictionary/?word=olive&type=english&search=Normal

It says Fragrant Olive = 木犀 (ki sai) or もくせい (mokusei).

And 木犀 in Google Images gets me this - a bunch of olive trees (among other things).