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Evergreen shrub or small tree with berry-like cones
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juniper
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista [syn: retem , raetam , juniper bush , Retama raetam , Genista raetam ] coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike ...
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n. any shrub or tree of the genus ''Juniperus'' of the cypress family; characterized by pointed, needle-like leaves and aromatic berry-like cones.
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The given name Juniper is either in reference to the English common name for the juniper tree or berry, or in reference to a derivation of the Welsh name Guinevere. Juniper has historically been used as both a boys' name and a girls' name. In 2011, Juniper ...
Usage examples of juniper.
They dined on slivers of artichoke heart drizzled with a peppery sauce of black olives and capers, followed by slices of chicken that had been marinated in lime, coriander, and juniper.
So thick the branches and the leves grene, Beshaded all the alleys that there were, And midst of every arbour might be seen, The sharpe, grene, swete juniper, Growing so fair with branches here and there, That as it seemed to a lyf without, The boughs did spread the arbour all about.
To make this, use broom-tops and dandelion roots, of each half an ounce, boiling them in a pint of water down to half a pint, and towards the last adding half an ounce of bruised juniper berries.
After this it is necessary to rinse the mouth by using by preference a vinous decoction of sage, or one of cinnamon, mastich, gallia, moschata, cubeb, juniper seeds, root of cyperus, and rosemary leaves.
This one is peppermint, yes, but it also has a juniper flavour, rather like gin.
Reverend Juniper Jackman, who had come to Abominadad to upstage and liberate Cooder, only to end up his cellmate.
Reverend Juniper Jackman bent over, chest working like a bellows, retching as he tried to get his wind back.
The party sent ashore returned at night having seen no person or habitation, having laded the boat with juniper wood.
Russian olive trees that he had planted in a sea of pachysandra, or the shag carpet of juniper, or the dogwood.
Ascending, the bud of the furze, The broom, and all blue-berried shoots Of stubborn and prickly kind, The juniper flat on its roots, The dwarf rhododaphne, behind She left, and the mountain sheep Far behind, goat, herbage and flower.
There they made pause to examine a great array of juniper berries set colourfully side by side with piles of crinkly sloke, or sea-spinach.
Sunlight glanced on the linked triangles of the Thearchy as it slid down into a juniper clump beside the ditcher.
No homes visible here, just two-story walls of green eugenia and juniper and red-berried toyon backed by forests of oak, ginkgo, and liquidambar.
But it is more scientific to suppose that the growth of Juniper trees should be encouraged near dwellings, because of the balsamic and antiseptic odours which they constantly exhale.
In the French hospitals it is customary to burn Juniper berries with Rosemary for correcting vitiated air, and to prevent infection.