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Webster 1828 Edition

Noun.

A tree or shrub of the genus Juniperus. The savin of Europe resembles the red cedar of America, and the latter is sometimes called savin.

savin ‎(plural savins)

The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, 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.

Juniperus sabina

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