savin

See also: Savin

English

Photograph of a plant with needle-like leaves and berry-like cones.
Savin

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Etymology

From Old French savine, from Latin sabina (“sabine (herb)”).

Noun

savin (plural savins)

  1. The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil.
  2. 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 [...].
  3. The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana.

Synonyms

  • (Juniperus sabina): bastard killer, cover-shame, savin juniper

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Finnish

Noun

savin

  1. Instructive plural form of savi.

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