creeping juniper

American  

noun

1. a prostrate central North American shrub, Juniperus horizontalis, of the cypress family, of central North America, having bluish-green or gray-blue leaves and blue fruit, growing well in sandy, rocky soil.

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Example Sentences

Characteristic plants are the blueberry and bearberry, mixed with creeping juniper and a few scattered grasses.

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On the morning of each day a society is given instructions to make the sweathouse at the camping place, a man to get the creeping juniper and another to cut out the smudge place.

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In March and April these courts receive glorious rich coloring from beds of California poppies and anemones, bordered with creeping juniper.

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The most luxuriant of the islands boasted only a patch of crowberry bushes or a few creeping junipers too much abashed to lift their heads a finger's length above the earth.

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Another man is to get the creeping juniper to use in the smudge place in the medicine lodge, and still another is to cut out the smudge place.

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