COMMON JUNIPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common juniper mean? 

• COMMON JUNIPER (noun)
  The noun COMMON JUNIPER has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: COMMON JUNIPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON JUNIPER (noun)

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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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

common juniper; Juniperus communis

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)