different between juniper vs juniperlike

English

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

juniper (countable and uncountable, plural junipers)

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.
One of a number of coniferous trees which resemble junipers.
(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.

juniper

juniper +? -like

juniperlike (comparative more juniperlike, superlative most juniperlike)

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