juniper : Idioms & Phrases

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common juniper

  • noun densely branching shrub or small tree having pungent blue berries used to flavor gin; widespread in northern hemisphere; only conifer on coasts of Iceland and Greenland
    Juniperus communis.
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creeping juniper

  • noun low to prostrate shrub of Canada and northern United States; bronzed purple in winter
    Juniperus horizontalis.
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drooping juniper

  • noun small tree of western Texas and mountains of Mexico having spreading branches with drooping branchlets
    drooping juniper; Juniperus flaccida.
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dwarf juniper

  • noun a procumbent variety of the common juniper
    ground cedar; Juniperus communis depressa.
  • noun procumbent or spreading juniper
    savin; Juniperus sabina.
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Gum juniper

  • . See Sandarac.
Webster 1913

juniper berries

  • noun berrylike cone of a common juniper; used in making gin
  • noun berrylike fruit of a plant of the genus Juniperus especially the berrylike cone of the common juniper
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juniper berry

  • noun berrylike fruit of a plant of the genus Juniperus especially the berrylike cone of the common juniper
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juniper bush

  • noun desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista
    juniper; Retama raetam; retem; Genista raetam; raetam.
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Juniper worm

  • (Zoöl.), the larva of a geometrid moth (Drepanodes varus). It feeds upon the leaves of the juniper, and mimics the small twigs both in form and color, in a remarkable manner.
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mexican juniper

  • noun small tree of western Texas and mountains of Mexico having spreading branches with drooping branchlets
    drooping juniper; Juniperus flaccida.
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red juniper

  • noun small juniper found east of Rocky Mountains having a conic crown, brown bark that peels in shreds, and small sharp needles
    red cedar; eastern red cedar; Juniperus virginiana.
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