yew
A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves…A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.
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» The raven croaked from the old yew-tree.
Der Rabe krächzte aus der alten Eibe. — Yorwba
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6 senses(countable)A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.
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(broadly, countable)Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus.
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Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus:
(countable, uncountable)In family Podocarpaceae.
(countable, uncountable)In family Cephalotaxaceae.
(uncountable)The wood of such trees.
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(countable, uncountable)A bow for archery, made of yew wood.
wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows
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Origin
From Middle English ew, from Old English īw, ēow, [both cognates of Welsh yw (“yews”), IriFrom Middle English ew, from Old English īw, ēow, [both cognates of Welsh yw (“yews”), Irish eo, Old Irish eó respectively]; although the Old English form was conjectured to be from Proto-West Germanic *īhu, from Proto-Germanic *īhwaz (compare Icelandic ýr), masculine variant of *īwō (compare Dutch ijf, German Eibe), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw-.
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plural: yewsSynonyms
3 synonymsWord family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
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