juniper bush

Questions about juniper bush

What does juniper bush mean?

juniper bush means "desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista".

What is another word for juniper bush?

Close synonyms include retem, raetam, juniper, 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 bush a common word?

juniper bush is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.