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yew::noun | Spocien Dictionary
yew::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | wood |
Examples of yew
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Persevere and you will find ancient yew trees that draw you into tangled copses.
From the guardian.co.uk
Yew sapwood is good only in tension, while the heartwood is good in compression.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A row of yew drums has been tamed, a pond restored, the water garden replanted.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Yew feels Universes tests the usual ways of storytelling on stage and succeeds.
From the suntimes.com
Skipton Castle's 350-year-old yew tree, which dominates the building's courtyard.
From the guardian.co.uk
Paclitaxel is a compound that was isolated from the bark of the Pacific yew tree.
From the sciencedaily.com
During the Middle Ages elm was also used to make longbows if yew was unavailable.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A great yew tree stands behind him and a pale moon rises in the misty evening sky.
From the nytimes.com
I live in western Washington State where Pacific yew, Taxus brevifolia, is native.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows
- Any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves
- 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; Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus; The wood of the yew; Made from the wood ...
- The wood of a European evergreen tree used for making medieval longbows.
- Any of several coniferous trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Taxus. Canada Yew (Taxus canadensis) is a shrub native to the North Woods and a favored moose browse. From the Old English iw or eow.
- Yew is one of the oldest cities in Britannia having a history back even in the day of Sosaria. In the heart of The Deep Forest, this vintage city of Justice has been for the most part untouched in the past several centuries. ...
- Any tree of genus Taxus, family Taxaceae, a division of the group Coniferae, with narrow lanceolate or linear leaves, especially Taxus baccata long planted in graveyards, and sometimes used as a means of approximating the date of churches. ...
- The wood that the English long bow was traditionally made from.
- [Chinese], Pukkam [Tamil]
