ju·ni·per

(jo͞o′nə-pər)

Any of various evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Juniperus, having needlelike or scalelike, often pointed leaves and aromatic, bluish-gray, berrylike seed-bearing cones.

[Middle English, from Latin iūniperus; see perə- in Indo-European roots.]

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

juniper

(ˈdʒuːnɪpə)

1. (Plants) any coniferous shrub or small tree of the genus Juniperus, of the N hemisphere, having purple berry-like cones. The cones of J. communis (common or dwarf juniper) are used as a flavouring in making gin. See also red cedar¹

2. (Plants) any of various similar trees, grown mainly as ornamentals

3. (Bible) Old Testament one of the trees used in the building of Solomon's temple (I Kings 6:15, 34) and for shipbuilding (Ezekiel 27:5)

[C14: from Latin jūniperus, of obscure origin]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

ju•ni•per

(ˈdʒu nə pər)

n.

any of several evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus Juniperus, of the cypress family, having scaly leaves and berrylike cones that yield an oil used in flavoring gin.

[1350–1400; Middle English junipere < Latin jūniperus]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	juniper - desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista Genista raetam, juniper bush, raetam, Retama raetam, retem genus Retama, Retama - small genus of Mediterranean shrubs; often included in genus Genista bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
	2.	juniper - coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones cypress - wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus genus Juniperus, Juniperus - junipers juniper berry - berrylike fruit of a plant of the genus Juniperus especially the berrylike cone of the common 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 Juniperus sabina, savin, dwarf juniper - 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, Juniperus communis depressa, ground cedar - 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

Translations

ثَمَرَة العَرْعَر

jalovec

enebærbusk

Wacholder

enebro

genévrier

boróka

einir

ginepro

kadagys

kadiķis

einer

jalovec

ardıç

杜松

juniper

[ˈdʒuːnɪpəʳ]

A. N → enebro m

B. CPD juniper berries NPL → bayas fpl de enebro

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

juniper

[ˈdʒuːnɪpə^r] n (= bush) → genévrier m
juniper berry → baie f de genièvre

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

juniper

n → Wacholder m; juniper berry → Wacholderbeere f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

juniper

[ˈdʒuːnɪpəʳ] n → ginepro
juniper berry → bacca di ginepro

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

juniper

(ˈdzuːnipə) noun

a type of evergreen shrub with berries and prickly leaves.

Mentioned in

References in classic literature

For December, and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter: holly; ivy; bays; juniper; cypress-trees; yew; pine-apple-trees; fir-trees; rosemary; lavender; periwinkle, the white, the purple, and the blue; germander; flags; orangetrees; lemon-trees; and myrtles, if they be stoved; and sweet marjoram, warm set.

Wherein I, for my part, do not like images cut out in juniper or other garden stuff; they be for children.

The standards to be roses; juniper; holly; berberries (but here and there, because of the smell of their blossoms); red currants; gooseberries; rosemary; bays; sweetbriar; and such like.

View in context

It was set about with hawthorn hedges and juniper bushes, and on the small, green branches sat a little nightingale, which sang so loud and clear "that all the garden and the walls rang right with the song." Prince James leaned from his window listening to the song of the birds, and watching them as they hopped from branch to branch, preening themselves in the early sunshine and twittering to their mates.

View in context

Toward night candles were burning round his coffin, a pall was spread over it, the floor was strewn with sprays of juniper, a printed band was tucked in under his shriveled head, and in a corner of the room sat a chanter reading the psalms.

View in context

A little ways off, beyond a line of scattered juniper trees, which marked the pathway to the church, a white dim figure flitted in the direction of the tomb.

View in context

Usually, a telephone pole is made from a sixty-year-old tree, a cedar, chestnut, or juniper. It lasts twelve years only, so that the one item of poles is still costing the telephone companies several millions a year.

View in context

All round this garden, in the uncultivated parts, red partridges ran about in conveys among the brambles and tufts of junipers, and at every step of the comte and Raoul a terrified rabbit quitted his thyme and heath to scuttle away to the burrow.

View in context

Aroma: Juniper forward, lemon and orange citrus notes, floral notes but no perfume scents.

Revisiting the classic gins

Juniper Systems has debuted a new rugged handheld, the Archer 2.

JUNIPER DEBUTS RUGGED HANDHELD W/ LONG BATTERY LIFE

Juniper Networks this week acquired Contrail Systems , a startup that makes controllers for software-defined networks, for $176 million in cash and stock.

Juniper buys SDN startup for $176M