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A long-lived evergreen coniferous tree of Europe and Asia, Taxus baccata (family Taxaceae), having heavy but flexible wood and dense dark green…
The yew-tree (also tax-tree); transferred a bow made of the wood of the yew.
More fully vew tree: a yew tree. Also: the wood of the yew.