juniper

Other forms of juniper

plural

junipers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about juniper

What does juniper mean?

juniper means "desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in juniper?

juniper has 3 syllables: ju-ni-per. The stress falls on "ju". In IPA it is /ˈdʒunəpɚ/.

What is another word for juniper?

Close synonyms include retem, raetam, juniper bush, Retama raetam, Genista raetam. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is juniper a common word?

juniper is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.