juniper berry
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- noun
- /ˈdʒuːnɪpər ˈbɛri/
:
bayas de enebro
- The first is an aromatic gin made with juniper berries harvested by hand among the 5,000-year-old bristlecones from our site in eastern Nevada.
- tablespoons of juniper berries
- dried juniper berries
- fresh juniper berries
Examples
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For a unique flavor, add juniper berries to your homemade gin.
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Of course they brought forth juniper berries, they're juniper bushes.
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You told these people to eat my juniper berries.
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They brought forth juniper berries!
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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) -
The recipe calls for crushed juniper berries to enhance the meat's taste.
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She sprinkled juniper berries on the roast to give it a special aroma.
Synonyms
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A small evergreen tree or shrub with needle leaves and berry-like cones used in gardens and to flavor gin
A small evergreen tree or shrub with needle leaves and blue, berry-like cones used to flavor gin
An evergreen bush or small tree with needle leaves and blue-black berries used to flavor gin
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun–noun compound literally refers to the berry (berry-like cone) of the juniper plant, so a learner who knows 'juniper' and 'berry' can infer it is the plant's small fruit or cone used as a spice. This composition follows regular, transparent English naming patterns and is cross-linguistically straightforward, so the meaning is predictable from its parts.
Etymology
Juniper berry is the simple name for the small, berry-like fruit that grows on the juniper plant, literally the plant's berry. Because cooks and gin makers have long used these pine-scented berries to add flavor, the name now means 'the spice or flavor made from that small fruit'.