1) Evergreen tree
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1) Archery bow material 2) Archery bow wood 3) Archery wood 4) Archery-bow material 5) Archery-bow wood 6) Arrow wood 7) Berried conifer 8) Bow material 9) Bow raw material 10) Bow tree 11) Bow wood 12) Bow wood, sometimes 13) Bow-making material 14) Bowmaking wood 15) Churchyard tree 16) Conifer with springy wood
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Yew is a common name given to various species of trees. The name is most prominently given to any of various coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus Taxus: The name also is used for any of various coniferous plants in the families Taxaceae and Cephalotaxaceae: Various coniferous plants in the family Podocarpaceae, which are superficially similar ...
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to rise, as a layer of froth in a boiling liquid
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• (n.) A bow for shooting, made of the yew. • (n.) An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British churchyards. • (a.) Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock. • (v. i.) See Yaw. &b...
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any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus (family Taxaceae), approximately eight species of ornamental evergreens, distributed throughout the Northern ... [3 related articles]
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<botany> A type of tree found in temperate climates, different families (taxus) in North & South America, China, Africa and Europe. ... Taxol and taxotere - promising investigational chemotherapeutic agents, are both derived from this family of trees. Although they are now in clinical use, their high expense prevent many from using them. ...
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Although a softwood, the timber of this native British species is very dense and strong. The wood is golden-brown in tone, close-grained and polishes to a fine finish; and as the trunks tend to twist, the wood is often beautifully figured. Yew has been a popular medium for the framework of country-made furniture since the 16thC, and from the 17th f …...
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Yew (ū)
intransitive verb See
Yaw .
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Yew noun [ Middle English
ew , Anglo-Saxon
eów ,
īw ,
eoh ; akin to Dutch
ijf , Old High German
īwa ,
īha , German
eibe , Icelandic
ȳr ; confer Ir.
iubhar , Gael.
iubhar ,
iughar , W....
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The yew (Taxus) is a genus of evergreen trees of the family taxaceae. The Yew has an irregular and twisted trunk that bears a purplish-brown bark. The wood is tough and resilient, helping to resist rotting. Its needles, which are flat and flexible, are dark green on top and light green underneath. They also arch downward and have two white bands on...
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[
n] - wood of a yew 2. [n] - any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves
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An evergreen hardwood tree noted for it's use in making longbows. Common in churchyards it has many myths attached to it.
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The wood that the English long bow was traditionally made from.
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noun any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves
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Any of a group of evergreen coniferous trees native to the northern hemisphere. The dark green flat needlelike leaves and bright red berrylike seeds are poisonous; the wood is hard and close-grained. (Genus
Taxus, family Taxaceae.) The western or Pacific yew (
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The wood of a European evergreen tree used for making medieval longbows.
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any of several evergreen, coniferous trees and shrubs of the genera Taxus and Torreya, constituting the family Taxaceae, of the Old World, North America, and Japan, having needlelike or scalelike foliage and seeds enclosed in a fleshy aril. · the fine-grained, elastic wood of any of these trees. · an archer's bow made of this wood. ...
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