juniper
English Thesaurus
1. coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | cypress, |
| definition | : | wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | common juniper, juniperus communis, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
| part holonym | : | juniper berry, |
| definition | : | berrylike fruit of a plant of the genus Juniperus especially the berrylike cone of the common juniper (noun.plant) |
2. desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | bush, shrub, |
| definition | : | a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus retama, retama, |
| definition | : | small genus of Mediterranean shrubs; often included in genus Genista (noun.plant) |
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