OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 11329

yew

/juː/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
tejo
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.
Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, e…
Old Yew, which graspest at the stones ⁠That name the under-lying dead, ⁠Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapt about the bones.
tejo
Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus.
tejo
The wood of the such trees.
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