Chinese juniper

noun

1. a shrub or tree, Juniperus chinensis, of China, Mongolia, and Japan, having scalelike leaves and small, round, purplish-brown fruit.

Example Sentences

The Chinese juniper and the eastern red cedar, two evergreen conifers, are highly tolerant of aerosols and high wind, so they are planted along shorelines.

From New York Times

Elsewhere sits a Chinese juniper bonsai, a kind of cousin to the prizewinning 250-year-old tree that served as the source material for another bronze Quinn created last year.

From Architectural Digest

Elsewhere sits a Chinese juniper bonsai, a kind of cousin to the prizewinning 250-year-old tree that served as the source material for another bronze Quinn created last year.

From Architectural Digest

In form it is extremely variable, for sometimes it shoots up on a single stem and looks like an Italian Cypress or like the upright Chinese Juniper, while at other times it will have two or more tall spires and a dense surrounding mass of lower growth, while in other cases it will be like a quantity of young trees growing close together, and yet the trees in all these varied forms may be nearly of an age.

From Project Gutenberg

This happens frequently in the larch and constantly in the Chinese juniper when it has arrived at a considerable age.

From Project Gutenberg