yew : Idioms & Phrases

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california yew

  • noun small or medium irregularly branched tree of the Pacific coast of North America; yields fine hard close-grained wood
    Pacific yew; California yew; Taxus brevifolia.
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english yew

  • noun predominant yew in Europe; extraordinarily long-lived and slow growing; one of the oldest species in the world
    Taxus baccata; English yew.
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florida yew

  • noun small bushy yew of northern Florida having spreading branches and very narrow leaves
    Taxus floridana.
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japanese yew

  • noun shrubby hardy evergreen of China and Japan having lustrous dark green foliage; cultivated in the eastern United States
    Taxus cuspidata.
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new caledonian yew

  • noun large yew native to New Caledonia; cultivated in eastern Australia and New Zealand and Hawaii
    Austrotaxus spicata.
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nutmeg-yew

  • noun California evergreen having a fruit resembling a nutmeg but with a strong turpentine flavor
    Torreya californica; California nutmeg.
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old world yew

  • noun predominant yew in Europe; extraordinarily long-lived and slow growing; one of the oldest species in the world
    Taxus baccata; English yew.
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pacific yew

  • noun small or medium irregularly branched tree of the Pacific coast of North America; yields fine hard close-grained wood
    Pacific yew; California yew; Taxus brevifolia.
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parasite yew

  • noun rare and endangered monoecious parasitic conifer of New Caledonia; parasitic on Falcatifolium taxoides
    Parasitaxus ustus.
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plum-fruited yew

  • noun South American evergreen tree or shrub
    Prumnopitys andina; Prumnopitys elegans.
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plum-yew

  • noun any of several evergreen trees and shrubs of eastern Asia resembling yew and having large seeds enclosed in a fleshy envelope; sometimes cultivated as ornamentals
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plum-yew family

  • noun a family of Cephalotaxaceae
    family Cephalotaxaceae; Cephalotaxaceae.
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prince albert yew

  • noun small yew having attractive foliage and partially weeping branches cultivated as an ornamental; mountains of southern Chile
    Prince Albert yew; Saxe-gothea conspicua.
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prince albert's yew

  • noun small yew having attractive foliage and partially weeping branches cultivated as an ornamental; mountains of southern Chile
    Prince Albert yew; Saxe-gothea conspicua.
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stinking yew

  • noun rare small evergreen of northern Florida; its glossy green leaves have an unpleasant fetid smell when crushed
    stinking cedar; Torrey tree; Torreya taxifolia.
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western yew

  • noun small or medium irregularly branched tree of the Pacific coast of North America; yields fine hard close-grained wood
    Pacific yew; California yew; Taxus brevifolia.
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white-berry yew

  • noun yew of southeastern China, differing from the Old World yew in having white berries
    Pseudotaxus chienii.
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yew family

  • noun sometimes classified as member of order Taxales
    family Taxaceae; Taxaceae.
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