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Rareyews
The correct spelling is yews.
How to pronounce yews
noun
Say it like: Yew-s
The correct spelling is yews. 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 Afric…
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noun
- 1.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.
- 2.(by extension) Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus.
- 3.Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus
- 4.The wood of the such trees.
- 5.A bow for archery, made of yew wood.
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