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Meanings of yew in English

A species of coniferous tree 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.

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Wood of the yew tree.

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Examples for "yew wood"
Examples for "yew wood"
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If you visit the magical yew wood in Killarney National Park, that is.
The Irish Times
2
This includes yew wood and walnut chests and dressing tables.
The Irish Times
3
They stood being dragged over rocks and falling down mountain sides better than the softer yew wood.
Hunting with the Bow & Arrow
4
But yew wood is hard to get and hard to make into a bow once having got it.
Hunting with the Bow & Arrow
5
The Great War of 1914 prevented this, and so we had an unlimited supply of yew wood for use.
Hunting with the Bow & Arrow
Usage of yew in English
1
He lives by himself in the yew tree outside the morning-room window.
The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
2
The second Act takes place near the sacred yew of the Thuleans.
The Standard Operaglass / Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fift...
3
Again, he was seated beneath the old yew tree in the churchyard.
International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science -...
4
I have said that a decoration of yew trees circled the garden.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
5
This spring a chaffinch built a nest in one of my yew-trees.
Dreamthorp / A Book of Essays Written in the Country
6
From this point on it may be treated the same as yew.
Hunting with the Bow & Arrow
7
He led me to a medium-size yew shape that had grown shaggy.
The thirteenth tale: a novel
8
A minute later he was walking briskly up the shady yew-tree walk.
Crome Yellow
9
Peering down he was astonished to see Matthew rapidly climbing the yew.
With Marlborough to Malplaquet: A Story of the Reign of Queen An...
10
But the yew inside the gate pursues its destiny with measured consolidation.
The Irish Times
11
Beneath a canopy of holly branches and yew two children sat playing.
Henry Brocken / His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange,...
12
On a stone seat beneath the yew hedge, Kitty Bristol lay prone.
The Marriage of William Ashe
13
Admirers of yew trees should make a point of visiting Bignor churchyard.
Highways and Byways in Sussex
14
There must be at least two centuries of solitude under those yew-trees.
The Greater Inclination
15
He perceived a white figure against a distant background of clipped yew.
The Mating of Lydia
16
Celaena ran her fingers along the smooth curve of her yew bow.
Throne of Glass
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Yew through the time
Yew across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common