different between bayberry vs juniper

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From bay +? berry.

Noun

bayberry (plural bayberries)

1. (Canada, US) The fruit of the wax myrtle shrub; or the plant itself (Morella cerifera), with aromatic, leathery leaves and waxy berries.
   1. Other species in the family Myricaceae, especially in genus Myrica; bay-rum tree, candleberry.
2. The fruit of the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis).
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, XLIII:

     [T]heir shape was much like a Figg, but very much smaller, some being about the bigness of a Bay-berry, others, and the biggest, of a Hazel-Nut.

3. West Indian bay tree (Pimenta racemosa), a tropical American shrub with aromatic leaves that are used in the preparation of bay rum.

Synonyms

• (Morella cerifera): wax myrtle
• (species in the family Myricaceae): candleberry, wax myrtle

Derived terms

• Asian bayberry (Nageia nagi)
• bayberry tallow (Myrica cerifera)
• bayberry waxtree (Myrica cerifera)
• bayberry willow (Salix myricoides)
• California bayberry (Myrica californica)
• Chinese bayberry (Morella rubra, syn. Myrica rubra)
• faya bayberry (Myrica faya)
• Japanese bayberry (Morella rubra)
• northern bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica)
• red bayberry (Morella rubra)
• scentless bayberry (Myrica inodora)
• Sierra bayberry (Myrica hartwegii)
• southern bayberry (Myrica caroliniensis, Myrica cerifera)

English

Etymology

Late Middle English junyper, juniperus, from Latin i?niperus (“juniper-tree”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?un?p?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?un?p?/, [?d??un??p?]
• Hyphenation: ju?ni?per

Noun

juniper (countable and uncountable, plural junipers)

1. Any shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus of the cypress family, which is characterized by pointed, needle-like leaves and aromatic berry-like cones.
2. One of a number of coniferous trees which resemble junipers.
3. (Britain, slang, archaic) Gin.
   • 1834, Young Hearts: A Novel by a Recluse. With a Preface by Miss Jane Porter (page 106)

     […] I said you didn't like them ere strong liquors, but if he warn't particular, I was sure you would pledge him in a glass of juniper, for I had always made you, since we had been man and vife^[sic], take a drop afore you went to market, to keep cold out.

Derived terms

Related terms

• Juniperites

Translations

Further reading

• juniper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Noun

juniper

1. Alternative form of junyper