savin

See also: Savin

English
savin (Juniperus sabina)

Etymology

From Old French savine, from Latin sabīna.

Noun

savin (countable and uncountable, 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, of eastern North America.

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savin

  1. Instructive plural form of savi.

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