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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)
- (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.
- (countable, by extension) Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus.
- Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus
- in family Podocarpaceae
- in family Cephalotaxaceae
- (uncountable) The wood of the such trees.
- A bow for archery, made of yew wood.
Adjective
yew (not comparable)
- Made from the wood of the yew tree.
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