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JUNIPER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("juniper" is a kind of...):
cypress (wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus)
Meronyms (parts of "juniper"):
juniper berry (berrylike fruit of a plant of the genus Juniperus especially the berrylike cone of the common juniper)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "juniper"):
pencil cedar; pencil cedar tree (any of several junipers with wood suitable for making pencils)
Juniperus silicicola; southern red cedar (juniper of swampy coastal regions of southeastern United States; similar to eastern red cedar)
dwarf juniper; Juniperus sabina; savin (procumbent or spreading juniper)
common juniper; Juniperus communis (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)
dwarf juniper; ground cedar; Juniperus communis depressa (a procumbent variety of the common juniper)
creeping juniper; Juniperus horizontalis (low to prostrate shrub of Canada and northern United States; bronzed purple in winter)
drooping juniper; Juniperus flaccida; Mexican juniper (small tree of western Texas and mountains of Mexico having spreading branches with drooping branchlets)
Holonyms ("juniper" is a member of...):
genus Juniperus; Juniperus (junipers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista
Synonyms:
Genista raetam; juniper; juniper bush; raetam; Retama raetam; retem
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("juniper" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("juniper" is a member of...):
genus Retama; Retama (small genus of Mediterranean shrubs; often included in genus Genista)
