A juniper is an evergreen bush with purple berries which can be used in cooking and medicine. a small bush that produces purple berries that can be used in cooking (juniperus). Any of about 60-70 species of aromatic evergreen trees or shrubs that make up the genus Juniperus of the cypress family, found throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Juvenile leaves are needlelike; mature leaves are awl-shaped, spreading, and arranged in pairs or in whorls of three. Common juniper (J. communis) is a sprawling shrub whose fragrant, spicy-smelling berries are used to flavour foods and alcoholic beverages, particularly gin. The fragrant wood of eastern red cedar (J. virginiana) is made into cabinets, fence posts, and pencils. J. horizontalis is a popular U.S. ornamental creeping juniper, and wood of the Mediterranean Phoenician juniper (J. phoenicea) is burned as incense
Any of several scaley leaved conifers of the genus Juniperus The Juniper of the North Woods is the shrub Common Juniper (Juniperus communis) Okâwanj in the Ojibwe