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Definition of Drooping juniper
1. Noun. Small tree of western Texas and mountains of Mexico having spreading branches with drooping branchlets.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drooping Juniper
Literary usage of Drooping juniper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"Berry small (except occidentalis), dark blue or black, (J. flaccida) DROOPING
JUNIPER DD. Bark shed in squarish plates. resinous, juicy; seeds i to 4. ..."
2. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1862)
"The Hemlock and the common white and red Cedars bear the shears well; but the
tendons of our arm strangely relax when we reach toward the drooping Juniper, ..."
3. The Pinetum: Being a Synosis of All the Coniferous Plants at Present Known by George Gordon, Henry George Bohn (1880)
"... on the mountains in the Island of Nippon, in Japan, and is called " Moro,"
or " Sonora Mats" (slender or drooping Juniper), by the Japanese. No. 12. ..."
4. Biennial Report of the California State Board of Forestry for the Years by California State Board of Forestry (1886)
"Js flaccida—drooping juniper. Middle sized tree, or bush, with shreddy bark;
branches spreading, slender, and drooping; leaves in pairs, ..."
5. Commercial Relations of the United States with Foreign Countries by United States Bureau of Manufactures, United States (1884)
"... the berries are larger than the English holly and the leaves are smooth.
Juniperus oxycedrus (Cedro da Serra).—An elegant drooping juniper ..."
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