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Definition of Juniper bush
1. Noun. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista.
Group relationships: Genus Retama, Retama
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Definition of Juniper bush
1. Noun. a bush, shrub, or smaller tree of any of the species within the genus ''Juniperus'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Juniper Bush
Literary usage of Juniper bush
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The plants of the Bible, trees and shrubs by John Hutton Balfour (1866)
"... valued for their hard and durable timber. The outside wood of the Ebony-tree
is white and soft, while the central part is black and hard. JUNIPER-BUSH. ..."
2. Poet Lore (1900)
"Behind a juniper bush, On a night in July warm and red, Was my poor mother ...
Behind a juniper bush, Between cock's crow and morning red, I struck in drink ..."
3. When I was a Boy in Norway by John Oscar Hall (1921)
"Here is the Norse version of " Round and Round the Mulberry Bush," which in some
parts is called " Round the juniper bush ": "So we go round the juniper ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"When he passed the juniper-bush where they had both been sitting-, all seemed to
him like a dream; and henceforth it always remained so to him. ..."
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