JUNIPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does juniper mean? 

• JUNIPER (noun)
  The noun JUNIPER has 2 senses:

1. desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista

2. coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones

  Familiarity information: JUNIPER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUNIPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Genista raetam; juniper; juniper bush; raetam; Retama raetam; retem

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

 Context examples 

Juniper tar is used as a topical treatment for various skin conditions.

(Juniper Tar, NCI Thesaurus)

Juniper berry oil is used in aromatherapy and perfumery.

(Juniper Berry Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Never did tombs look so ghastly white; never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funereal gloom; never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously; never did bough creak so mysteriously; and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The essential oil extracted from juniper berries.

(Juniper Berry Oil, NCI Thesaurus)