juniper

1. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers;
   Constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament;
   Sometimes placed in genus Genista (synset 112587995)
   is a type of: bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
   belongs to: genus retama, retama - small genus of Mediterranean shrubs; often included in genus Genista
   same as: genista raetam, juniper bush, raetam, retama raetam, retem
2. Coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones (synset 111657017)
   is a type of: cypress - wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus
   subtypes:

   • 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
   belongs to: genus juniperus, juniperus - junipers
   has: juniper berry - berrylike fruit of a plant of the genus Juniperus especially the berrylike cone of the common juniper

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