COMMON JUNIPER

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

common juniper; Juniperus communis

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("common juniper" is a kind of...):

juniper (coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones)

Meronyms (parts of "common juniper"):

juniper berries (berrylike cone of a common juniper; used in making gin)

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