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Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese, from an earlier form *jĩbro < *jĩebro, from Vulgar Latin ziniperus, from Latin iūniperus. Compare Galician cimbro, Spanish enebro. Doublet of the learned borrowing junípero.
Pronunciation
Noun
zimbro m (plural zimbros)
- juniper (shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus)
- Synonym: junípero
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