Synonyms:
juniper
Meaning: coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones
Synonyms:
retem, raetam, juniper_bush, juniper, Retama_raetam, Genista_raetam
Meaning: desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista
Usage examples
The Western Juniper
Medea, with a newly cut spray of juniper dipped in a mystic brew, touched its deadly eyes.
Its fine color and picturesqueness are appreciated by artists, but to me the juniper seems a singularly strange and taciturn tree.
The Juniper or Red Cedar (Juniperus occidentalis) is preeminently a rock tree, occupying the baldest domes and pavements in the upper silver fir and alpine zones, at a height of from 7000 to 9500 feet.