juniper
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- noun
- /ˈdʒuːnɪpər/
- Literature
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retama
- Nothing but juniper and sage grow on these arid heights, yet I don't find them forbidding.
- juniper-pinyon
- juniper and sage
- juniper berries
Examples
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Mesas in red, tan, and purple thrust out of the red-tan desert, all dotted with darker juniper and piñon.
Fiction book (1999) -
I wanted the intruding, shadow-like crevices of scrub oak, pinon, and juniper to become only suggestions of themselves, smoothed over with whipped cream and frosting.
Fiction book (1991) -
Probably asleep already, cuddled up under some juniper bush.
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All those Juniper and Joshua trees have adapted to survive on only five inches of rainfall a year.
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Special, like an Arizona sunrise or a juniper wet with dew.
Blog text (32) -
Burned pine nuts, juniper berries, and rabbit bones showed that whoever lived there made it to the rim regularly or knew someone who did.
Academic text (2009) -
Rock gardens, he explained, were more pleasant to sit upon while ingesting the fragrance of the cannabis and the berries of the juniper.
Fiction book (1996) -
The base roared across the salt flat on its six treads, kicking up scuffs of salt and sand and scraps of the low, dry junipers that grew here and there in the basin.
Fiction book (1999) -
The first book was about a mouse who was furnishing his bachelor quarters with things that were important to him, like a hand-knitted blanket, a pillow stuffed with juniper berries, and a china thimble just the right size to use as a teacup.
Fiction book (1995) -
In the arid landscape, the juniper shrubs provided shelter for small animals.
Synonyms
An evergreen shrub that grows in dry places with small thin leaves and berries
A desert shrub with small white flowers used for shelter and firewood
A small desert shrub with white flowers that gives shade and appears in the Bible
A desert shrub from the Middle East with small white flowers
A desert shrub with small white flowers that grows in Syria and Arabia
Compounds
A small evergreen tree or shrub with needle leaves and blue, berry-like cones used to flavor gin
- Specialized
A low, spreading evergreen shrub used as ground cover that turns brownish purple in winter
- Specialized
A small evergreen tree with thin hanging branches that grows in western Texas and Mexican mountains
A small tree with spreading branches and drooping twigs that grows in western Texas and the mountains of Mexico
- Literature
An evergreen shrub that grows in dry places with small thin leaves and berries
- US
A small tree with sharp needles and peeling brown bark that grows in eastern North America
Surface Forms
Etymology
Juniper was a name first used long ago for several kinds of shrubs, including some in Syria and Arabia, and it comes from the Latin juniperus. So when old texts mention a 'juniper' they may mean a local desert bush, which explains why the same word was used for different plants in different places.