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Definition of 'savin'

English

(rfi) (Juniperus sabina) (Juniperus virginiana)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The evergreen shrub , endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil.
  • The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
  • th'aged Nurse her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew, and Sauine , and the flowre / Of Camphara, and Calamint, and Dill, / All which she in a earthen Pot did poure [...].
  • The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana .
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