juniper

From Late Middle English junyper, juniperus, from Latin iūniperus (“juniper-tree”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒunɪpə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒunɪpɚ/, [ˈd͡ʒunɪ̈pɚ]
• Hyphenation: ju‧ni‧per

juniper (countable and uncountable, plural junipers)

1. Any shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus of the cypress family, which is characterized by pointed, needle-like leaves and aromatic berry-like cones.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion, OL 4103950W:

     One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.

2. One of a number of coniferous trees which resemble junipers.
3. (UK, slang, archaic) Gin.
   • 1834, Young Hearts: A Novel by a Recluse. With a Preface by Miss Jane Porter (page 106)

     […] I said you didn't like them ere strong liquors, but if he warn't particular, I was sure you would pledge him in a glass of juniper, for I had always made you, since we had been man and vife^[sic], take a drop afore you went to market, to keep cold out.

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juniper

1. Alternative form of junyper