yew

English Thesaurus

1. any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	conifer, coniferous tree,
definition	:	any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	california nutmeg, nutmeg-yew, torreya californica,
definition	:	California evergreen having a fruit resembling a nutmeg but with a strong turpentine flavor (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	stinking cedar, stinking yew, torrey tree, torreya taxifolia,
definition	:	rare small evergreen of northern Florida; its glossy green leaves have an unpleasant fetid smell when crushed (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	english yew, old world yew, taxus baccata,
definition	:	predominant yew in Europe; extraordinarily long-lived and slow growing; one of the oldest species in the world (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	california yew, pacific yew, taxus brevifolia, western yew,
definition	:	small or medium irregularly branched tree of the Pacific coast of North America; yields fine hard close-grained wood (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	japanese yew, taxus cuspidata,
definition	:	shrubby hardy evergreen of China and Japan having lustrous dark green foliage; cultivated in the eastern United States (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	florida yew, taxus floridana,
definition	:	small bushy yew of northern Florida having spreading branches and very narrow leaves (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	austrotaxus spicata, new caledonian yew,
definition	:	large yew native to New Caledonia; cultivated in eastern Australia and New Zealand and Hawaii (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	pseudotaxus chienii, white-berry yew,
definition	:	yew of southeastern China, differing from the Old World yew in having white berries (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family taxaceae, taxaceae, yew family,
definition	:	sometimes classified as member of order Taxales (noun.plant)

substance holonym	:	yew,
definition	:	wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows (noun.plant)

2. wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	wood,
definition	:	the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees (noun.substance)

substance meronym	:	yew,
definition	:	any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves (noun.plant)