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"Yew" Definition

noun

Any of several poisonous evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Taxus, having scarlet cup-shaped arils and flat needles that are dark green above and yellowish below.

Source: American Heritage Dictionary

The wood of any of these trees, especially the durable, fine-grained wood of the Old World species Taxus baccata, used in cabinetmaking and for archery bows.

Source: American Heritage Dictionary

any of a genus ( of the family Taxaceae, the yew family) of evergreen gymno&*%$#ous trees and shrubs with stiff linear leaves and seeds surrounded by a fleshy red aril as.

Source: Merriam-Webster

A long-lived Eurasian tree or shrub ().

Source: Merriam-Webster

A low straggling bush () of the eastern United States and Canada.

Source: Merriam-Webster

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