Savin

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An evergreen Eurasian shrub (Juniperus sabina) having brownish-blue seed-bearing cones and young shoots that yield an oil formerly used medicinally.
  • n. Any of several related plants.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An evergreen European shrub that yields a medicinal oil.
  • n. The dried tips of this plant, with poisonous and anthelmintic properties, used as a drug.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A coniferous shrub (Juniperus Sabina) of Western Asia, occasionally found also in the northern parts of the United States and in British America. It is a compact bush, with dark-colored foliage, and produces small berries having a glaucous bloom. Its bitter, acrid tops are sometimes used in medicine for gout, amenorrhœa, etc.
  • n. The North American red cedar (Juniperus Virginiana.)
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A European tree or shrub, Juniperus Sabina.
  • n. A drug consisting of savin-tops. See def. 1.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. procumbent or spreading juniper
  • Equivalent
    savine   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    juniper   
    Cross Reference
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Gavin    cavin    ravin   
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