cade
/keɪd/
noun
- A juniper shrub (Juniperus oxycedrus) native to the Mediterranean region, whose wood yields an oil used in skin treatments.
- The farmer planted a row of cade bushes along the edge of his property.
- The cade tree grows wild on the rocky hillsides of southern Europe.
- Oil from cade has been used for centuries to treat eczema and psoriasis.
adjective
- (of a young animal) abandoned by its mother and raised by humans; also used figuratively for a person who is pampered or overly dependent.
- The cade lamb was bottle-fed by the shepherd's children.
- The rescue center took in a cade fawn whose mother had been hit by a car.
- She felt like a cade kid, always relying on her parents for everything.