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SAVIN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does savin mean?
• SAVIN (noun)
The noun SAVIN has 1 sense:
1. procumbent or spreading juniper
Familiarity information: SAVIN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Procumbent or spreading juniper
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
dwarf juniper; Juniperus sabina; savin
Hypernyms ("savin" is a kind of...):
juniper (coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones)
Context examples
What's the good of me workin' like a slave all week, a- savin' minutes, an' them a-comin' an' ringin' in fancy-starch extras on me?
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
There may be a poorish few not wrong, savin' where they make out the people too good; for there be folk that do think a balm-bowl be like the sea, if only it be their own.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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