Yew

Yew

Yew may refer to:

Botany

*Any of various coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus "Taxus":
**European Yew or Common Yew ("Taxus baccata")
**Pacific Yew or Western Yew ("Taxus brevifolia")
**Canadian Yew ("Taxus canadensis")
**Chinese Yew ("Taxus chinensis")
**Japanese Yew ("Taxus cuspidata")
**Florida Yew ("Taxus floridana")
**Mexican Yew ("Taxus globosa")
**Sumatran Yew ("Taxus sumatrana")
**Himalayan Yew ("Taxus wallichiana")
*Any of various coniferous plants in the families Taxaceae and Cephalotaxaceae:
**White-berry Yew ("Pseudotaxus chienii")
**New Caledonian Yew or Southern Yew ("Austrotaxus spicata")
**Catkin-yew ("Amentotaxus sp.")
**Plum-yew ("Cephalotaxus sp.")
*Any of the various coniferous plants in the family Podocarpaceae which are superficially similar to other yews:
**Prince Albert's Yew ("Saxegothaea conspicua")
**Plum-yew ("Prumnopitys sp.")

pecific trees

*Fortingall Yew, the oldest tree in Europe

Place names

*in Singapore:
**Yew Tee, a district
**Yew Tee MRT Station
**Yew Lian Park
*in the United Kingdom
**Yew Tree, Liverpool
**Yew Tree Tarn, a lake in the Lake District
**Yew Tree, West Bromwich
**Kenn Church, Kenn Pier & Yew Tree Farm SSSI, a Site of Special Scientific Interest

Fictional place names

*Yew Dales, the home of Ull the winter god in Norse mythology
*Yew, a city-state in the fictional Ultima universe

Novels

*The Rose and the Yew Tree by Agatha Christie
*The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum

People

*Lui Tuck Yew, Singaporean rear admiral
*Lim Yew Hock, Singaporean chief minister
*Lee Kuan Yew, Singaporean prime minister

Others

*Yew Chung International School
*You (disambiguation)
*Ewe (disambiguation)


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  • Yew — Yew, n. [OE. ew, AS. e[ o]w, [=i]w, eoh; akin to D. ijf, OHG. [=i]wa, [=i]ha, G. eibe, Icel. [=y]r; cf. Ir. iubhar, Gael. iubhar, iughar, W. yw, ywen, Lith. j[ e]va the black alder tree.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Bot.) An evergreen tree ({Taxus… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Yew — ([=u]), a. Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • yew —    Yew trees symbolize both death and immortality, being poisonous but long lived, and able to re root their branches to produce fresh saplings. Until the 18th century, their foliage was laid in coffins and graves at *funerals. The custom of… …   A Dictionary of English folklore

  • yew — (n.) O.E. iw, eow yew, from P.Gmc. *iwa /*iwo (Cf. M.Du. iwe, Du. ijf, O.H.G. iwa, Ger. Eibe, O.N. yr), from PIE *ei wo (Cf. O.Ir. eo, Welsh ywen yew ), perhaps a suffixed form of *ei reddish, motley, yel …   Etymology dictionary

  • yew — yew; yew·berry; yew·en; …   English syllables

  • yew — [yo͞o] n. [ME ew < OE iw, eow, akin to Ger eibe (OHG iwa) < IE * (e)iwā < base * ei , reddish > L uva, grape: orig. name because of color of the wood] 1. a) any of a genus (Taxus) of evergreen shrubs and trees of the yew family,… …   English World dictionary

  • Yew — ([=u]), v. i. See {Yaw}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • yew — yü n any of a genus (Taxus of the family Taxaceae, the yew family) of evergreen trees and shrubs with stiff linear leaves and seeds surrounded by a fleshy red aril esp one (T. brevifolia) of the Pacific coast of the U.S. and Canada whose bark… …   Medical dictionary

  • yew — [ ju ] noun count a tree with dark green leaves that produces a bright red fruit a. uncount the wood of a yew tree …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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