YEW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yew mean? 

• YEW (noun)
  The noun YEW has 2 senses:

1. wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows

2. any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves

  Familiarity information: YEW used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YEW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("yew" is a substance of...):

yew (any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (substance of "yew"):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yew"):

California nutmeg; nutmeg-yew; Torreya californica (California evergreen having a fruit resembling a nutmeg but with a strong turpentine flavor)

stinking cedar; stinking yew; Torrey tree; Torreya taxifolia (rare small evergreen of northern Florida; its glossy green leaves have an unpleasant fetid smell when crushed)

English yew; Old World yew; Taxus baccata (predominant yew in Europe; extraordinarily long-lived and slow growing; one of the oldest species in the world)

California yew; Pacific yew; Taxus brevifolia; western yew (small or medium irregularly branched tree of the Pacific coast of North America; yields fine hard close-grained wood)

Japanese yew; Taxus cuspidata (shrubby hardy evergreen of China and Japan having lustrous dark green foliage; cultivated in the eastern United States)

Florida yew; Taxus floridana (small bushy yew of northern Florida having spreading branches and very narrow leaves)

Austrotaxus spicata; New Caledonian yew (large yew native to New Caledonia; cultivated in eastern Australia and New Zealand and Hawaii)

Pseudotaxus chienii; white-berry yew (yew of southeastern China, differing from the Old World yew in having white berries)

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

family Taxaceae; Taxaceae; yew family (sometimes classified as member of order Taxales)

 Context examples 

He pointed; and far down the avenue of yews we saw a white figure advance—a dim white figure, which held something dark at its breast.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At eleven o’clock next morning my friend and I were walking up the famous yew avenue of Holdernesse Hall.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A happy day it would be for the Seneschal of Auvergne when they should learn that the last yew bow was over the marches.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A diterpene taxane obtained from the bark and leaves of the yew tree (Taxus brevifolia) and can convert to taxol.

(Cephalomannine, NCI Thesaurus)

On each side stood a sable bush-holly or yew.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Docetaxel is a semi-synthetic, second-generation taxane derived from a compound found in the European yew tree Taxus baccata.

(Nanoparticle Albumin-Bound Docetaxel, NCI Thesaurus)

A semi-synthetic, second-generation taxane derived from a compound found in the European yew tree, Taxus baccata.

(Docetaxel, NCI Thesaurus)

A formulation of the 6-omega fatty acid derivative 2'-linoleyl carbonate (LOC) conjugated to paclitaxel, a taxane compound extracted from the Pacific yew tree Taxus brevifolia, with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Linoleyl Carbonate-paclitaxel, NCI Thesaurus)

A liposome-encapsulated formulation of paclitaxel, a taxoid compound extracted from the Pacific yew tree Taxus brevifolia, with antineoplastic property.

(Paclitaxel liposome, NCI Thesaurus)

A formulation of polyethylene glycol (PEG) conjugated paclitaxel, a compound extracted from the Pacific yew tree Taxus brevifolia, with antineoplastic activity.

(Pegylated Paclitaxel, NCI Thesaurus)