juniper-resin

(jé’ni-pér-rez’in), n. Sandarac. uniperus (jé-nip’e-rus),”. [L., the juniper tree: used as a genus by Tournefort, Inst., 361, 1700, but with a wider meaning, including Cedrus. Restricted to present sense by Linneus.] A genus of coniferous plants, the true junipers, embracing about 30 species, widely distributed. The few scales of the strobile in this genus are fleshy, and consolidated into an indehiscent berry or drupe, containing from 1 to 6 hard seeds, either distinct or united in a woody ma . The leaves are either scale-like or slender and spreading (acerose), or. both in the same plant. (See juniper.) Bight or ten fo il species are described from various parts of the world, largely from the Tertiary of Europe and the Cretaceous and Tertiary of the arctic regions. When deviating slightly from the living plant, these fo il forms are often called juniper i tes. junk! (jungk), m. (