PLUM-YEW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plum-yew mean? 

• PLUM-YEW (noun)
  The noun PLUM-YEW has 1 sense:

1. any of several evergreen trees and shrubs of eastern Asia resembling yew and having large seeds enclosed in a fleshy envelope; sometimes cultivated as ornamentals

  Familiarity information: PLUM-YEW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLUM-YEW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several evergreen trees and shrubs of eastern Asia resembling yew and having large seeds enclosed in a fleshy envelope; sometimes cultivated as ornamentals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("plum-yew" is a kind of...):

conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)

Holonyms ("plum-yew" is a member of...):

Cephalotaxus; genus Cephalotaxus (the genus of Cephalotaxus (see plum-yews))