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Definition yew

Etymology

From Middle English ew, from Old English ?w, ?ow, from Proto-Germanic *?waz, *?hwaz (compare Icelandic ýr), masculine variant of *?w? (compare Dutch ijf, German Eibe), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyHweh? (compare Hittite [script needed] (eja, “type of evergreen”), Welsh yw (“yews”), Latgalian ?va (“bird cherry”), Lithuanian ievà (“bird cherry”), Russian ???? (íva, “willow”)).

Noun

yew (countable and uncountable, plural yews)

1. (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.
2. (countable, by extension) Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus.
3. Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus
   1. in family Podocarpaceae
   2. in family Cephalotaxaceae
4. (uncountable) The wood of the such trees.
5. A bow for archery, made of yew wood.

Adjective

yew (not comparable)

1. Made from the wood of the yew tree.

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