Juniper Definition

jo͝onə-pər
junipers
noun
junipers
Any of a genus (Juniperus) of evergreen shrubs or trees of the cypress family, with needlelike or scalelike foliage, aromatic wood, and berrylike cones that yield an oil used for flavoring gin and formerly in medicine.
Webster's New World
Any of several similar trees grown for ornament.
Webster's New World

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Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Juniper

Noun

Singular:
juniper
Plural:
junipers

Origin of Juniper

  • Middle English from Latin iūniperus perə-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin iūniperus (“juniper”).

    From Wiktionary

Juniper Sentence Examples

  • Of course the juniper and a few other deciduous trees also occur.

  • Juniper forests are said to exist on the higher mountains.

  • Toward night candles were burning round his coffin, a pall was spread over it, the floor was strewn with sprays of juniper, a printed band was tucked in under his shriveled head, and in a corner of the room sat a chanter reading the psalms.

  • Other trees are the juniper, willow, green ash, box elder, scrub oak, wild plum and wild cherry.

  • Schinzia, which forms galllike swellings on the roots of rushes; Gymnosporangium, causing excrescences on juniper stems; numerous leaf Fungi such as Puccinia, Aecidium, Sep/one, &c., causing yellow, brown or black spots on leaves; or Ustilago in the anthers of certain flowers.

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Words Starting With

JJUJUN

Words Ending With

RERPER

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