Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun juniper
2 senses of juniper
Sense 1
retem, raetam, juniper bush, juniper, Retama raetam, Genista raetam -- (desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista)
=> shrub, bush -- (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Sense 2
juniper -- (coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones)
=> cypress -- (wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus)