juniper

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Only the Sierra juniper is at all like it, standing rigid and unconquerable on glacier pavements for thousands of years, grim and silent, with an air of antiquity about as pronounced as that of the sequoia The bark of the largest trees is from one to two feet thick, rich cinnamon brown, purplish on young trees, forming magnificent masses of color with the underbrush.

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  1. noun 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.

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  • The forests were old growth with some birch and maple, but mostly they were jack pine, juniper, and spruce. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 03 - September 2003
  • For the Greylock Gin, named after Mount Greylock in the Berkshires, Weld packs a blend of botanicals into a gin head suspended over a pot still to infuse the distillate with flavors like licorice, juniper, and orange peel. —  Boston.com Most Popular
  • Kagen Allergy Clinic reports a very high risk for symptoms due to pollen from juniper, alder and maple. —  The Fond du Lac Reporter Latest Headlines
  • Fortunately, there was no doubt about the inward voice; it was echoing the robins; it was calling me to go out like Elijah and dwell under a juniper-tree. —  Days Off And Other Digressions
  • Mezquite, juniper, and "black-jack" oaks grow in groves or spinneys; while standing apart may be observed the arborescent jucca--the "dragon-tree" of the Western world, towering above an underwood unlike any other, composed of cactaceae in all the varieties of cereus, cactus, and echinocactus. —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
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  1. Middle English, from Latin iūniperus; see perə-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English junyper; altered, to suit the Latin, from earlier gynypre, jene-per, etc. (also prob. *genevre, later ult. geneva and gin, q. v.), from Old French geneivre, genoivre = Provencal genibre, genebre = Old Spanish genebro, Spanish enebro = Pg.zimbro= It.ginepro, giunipero, from Latin juniperus, a juniper, so called as ‘renewing its youth,’ i. e. being evergreen, from juvenis (contr. juni-), young, + parere, produce: see parent.
 

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