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Junior World Orienteering Championships
The Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) is the annual world championship for under-21 orienteers, held since 1990, awarding nine titles across sprint, middle, long, sprint relay, and relay races.
Junior World Rally Championship
The Junior World Rally Championship (Junior WRC) is the FIA's entry-level world championship for young rally drivers, begun in 2001 and now run in identical Ford Fiesta Rally3 cars.
Junior/senior combined high schools in the United States
A junior/senior combined high school in the United States is a single secondary school housing junior high and high school grades, typically grades 7 through 12, concentrated in rural areas.
Juniper
Juniper (Juniperus, Cupressaceae): genus of about 70 evergreen conifer trees and shrubs of the northern hemisphere, with needle or scale leaves and berry-like fleshy seed cones used to flavor gin.
Juniper berry
Juniper berry, the fleshy female seed cone (galbulus) of Juniperus, especially Juniperus communis; not a true berry. Key gin flavoring and game spice; oil rich in alpha-pinene; limited clinical evidence for medicinal uses.
Juniper Capital
Juniper Capital is a Houston, Texas-based private equity manager focused on onshore United States oil and gas investments, operating through fund partnerships including Juniper Capital IV.
Juniper expansion in western North America
Juniper expansion in western North America is the spread of juniper trees, chiefly western juniper, into sagebrush shrublands, driven mainly by fire suppression and livestock grazing.
Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks is an American networking equipment company founded in Silicon Valley in 1996, known for routers and security products; it became HPE's networking business in 2025.
Juniper Square
Juniper Square is a San Francisco financial technology company, founded in 2014, that provides connected fund software, data, and administration services to private markets general partners.
Junípero Serra
Junípero Serra, born Miguel Jose Serra, was a Spanish Franciscan friar who founded the first California missions and served as their Father President from 1769 to 1784.
Junípero Serra High School (San Mateo, California)
Junípero Serra High School, a private Catholic all-boys college-prep school in San Mateo, California, founded 1944 by Archbishop Mitty; distinct from Serra High School in Gardena and JSerra in San Juan Capistrano.
Junipero Serra Peak
Junipero Serra Peak (Pimkolam; formerly Santa Lucia Peak) is the highest summit of the Santa Lucia Mountains and Monterey County, California, about 5,862 ft, in the Ventana Wilderness, Los Padres National Forest, with isolated sugar pine forest.
Juniperus ashei
Juniperus ashei (Ashe juniper, mountain cedar), Cupressaceae conifer of the Edwards Plateau, Texas, with disjunct stands in Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Coahuila; fire-sensitive, causes winter cedar fever, and hosts golden-cheeked warbler nesting.
Juniperus communis
Juniperus communis, common juniper, is a circumboreal Cupressaceae shrub or small tree whose fleshy cones flavor gin and are used in herbal medicine; dioecious, IUCN Least Concern, nine accepted varieties.
Juniperus drupacea
Juniperus drupacea (Syrian juniper, Andız) is the tallest juniper, a dioecious Tertiary relict of the eastern Mediterranean and monotypic section Caryocedrus, with three-year, drupe-like cones; Least Concern globally but Endangered in Greece.
Juniperus occidentalis
Juniperus occidentalis, western juniper (also called Sierra juniper for southern populations now split as J. grandis), is a small, long-lived Cupressaceae tree native to Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, and Washington, expanding into sagebrush steppe since the late 1800s and killed by fire, regenerating only by seed.
Juniperus osteosperma
Juniperus osteosperma, Utah juniper (syn. J. utahensis), a short Cupressaceae conifer dominating Great Basin and Colorado Plateau pinyon-juniper woodlands; slow-growing, deep-rooted, usually killed by fire, hybridizes with J. occidentalis in Nevada.
Juniperus oxycedrus
Juniperus oxycedrus (prickly juniper, cade juniper) is a western Mediterranean Cupressaceae shrub or tree to 6 m with spiny two-banded needles; its wood yields cade oil, and J. deltoides and J. macrocarpa were split from it.
Juniperus phoenicea
Juniperus phoenicea, Phoenician juniper ('ar'ar), a Mediterranean Cupressaceae shrub or small tree 5–8 m with red-brown berry-like cones; IUCN Least Concern; J. turbinata split from it as a separate species.
Juniperus sabina
Juniperus sabina, savin juniper, also Sabina vulgaris, a dioecious evergreen Cupressaceae shrub native from central and southern Europe to SW Siberia and N China, grown for centuries, IUCN Least Concern.
Juniperus scopulorum
Juniperus scopulorum, Rocky Mountain juniper, is a small evergreen cypress native from western Canada to northern Mexico, with two-year blue cones, hybridizing with J. virginiana, killed by fire but drought tolerant.
Juniperus virginiana
Eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) is a dioecious juniper of eastern North America, not a true cedar, with one-year blue cones, decay-resistant aromatic heartwood (cedrene, cedrol), heavy Great Plains grassland encroachment under fire suppression, and uses in fenceposts, chests, pencils, and cedarwood oil.
JUnit
JUnit is a unit testing framework for the Java programming language, created in 1997 by Kent Beck and Erich Gamma. It is the most widely used Java testing framework.
Junius Spencer Morgan
Junius Spencer Morgan (1813–1890) was an American merchant banker in London who led J. S. Morgan & Co., the foundation of the House of Morgan.
Junius Spencer Morgan III
Junius Spencer Morgan III (1892–1960) was an American banker, son of J.P. Morgan, who served as a director of J.P. Morgan & Co. from 1943.
Junji Fukuhara (福原淳嗣)
Junji Fukuhara (福原淳嗣), born 1967 in Odate, Akita, is an LDP House of Representatives member for Akita 2nd district, elected 2024 by proportional revival and 2026 by district with 70,352 votes, after three terms as mayor of Odate City.
Junji Ito (伊藤潤二)
Junji Ito (伊藤潤二, born 1963) is a Japanese horror manga artist, creator of Tomie, Uzumaki, and Gyo, a four-time Eisner Award winner and 2025 Eisner Hall of Fame inductee known as the Stephen King of Japan.
Junji Ito Collection (伊藤潤二『コレクション』)
Junji Ito Collection (伊藤潤二『コレクション』) is a 2018 Japanese horror anime anthology produced by Studio Deen, the first television anime adaptation of horror manga artist Junji Ito's short stories, featuring characters like Tomie and Souichi.
Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu (伊藤潤二の猫日記 よん＆むー) is Junji Ito's semi-autobiographical gag manga about living with his wife's cats Yon and Mu, serialized 2008–2009 in Magazine Z and published in English by Kodansha Comics in 2015.
Junji Iwahara
Junji Iwahara is a biophysical chemist and professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, known for using NMR spectroscopy to study how proteins scan DNA.