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JUNÍPERO
GENDER:
Masculine
USAGE:
Various
Meaning & History
This was the name assumed by the 18th-century Spanish Franciscan monk Miguel José Serra, a missionary to California. He named himself after one of
Saint
Francis's companions, who was named from Latin
iuniperus
"juniper".
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