单词 | yew |
释义 | yew (once / 2490 pages) n Use the noun yew when you're talking about the medium-sized evergreen that has flat needles and small red berries. This ancient and durable tree confirms the theory that the longer you hang around English, the more homophones — words that sound the same though they're spelled differently — you'll pick up. There are several of these in the case of yew. Curious thing is, all four words in English with this pronunciation (yew, ewe, you, and u) appeared before the 12th century. Guess we just like to make the sound. WORD FAMILYyew: yews USAGE EXAMPLESGame Commission wildlife veterinarian Justin Brown says he’s not aware of another case of black bear deaths from yew poisoning. Washington Times(Dec 23, 2016) Game Commission veterinarian Justin Brown says he’s not aware of another case of black bear deaths from yew poisoning. Seattle Times(Dec 23, 2016) Also, keep small children away from poisonous seasonal plants like mistletoe, holly berries, yew plants and poinsettias. Washington Times(Dec 18, 2016) 1n any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves Hypo|Hyper California nutmeg, Torreya californica, nutmeg-yew California evergreen having a fruit resembling a nutmeg but with a strong turpentine flavor Torrey tree, Torreya taxifolia, stinking cedar, stinking yewrare small evergreen of northern Florida; its glossy green leaves have an unpleasant fetid smell when crushed English yew, Old World yew, Taxus baccatapredominant yew in Europe; extraordinarily long-lived and slow growing; one of the oldest species in the world California yew, Pacific yew, Taxus brevifolia, western yewsmall or medium irregularly branched tree of the Pacific coast of North America; yields fine hard close-grained wood Japanese yew, Taxus cuspidatashrubby hardy evergreen of China and Japan having lustrous dark green foliage; cultivated in the eastern United States Florida yew, Taxus floridanasmall bushy yew of northern Florida having spreading branches and very narrow leaves Austrotaxus spicata, New Caledonian yewlarge yew native to New Caledonia; cultivated in eastern Australia and New Zealand and Hawaii Pseudotaxus chienii, white-berry yewyew of southeastern China, differing from the Old World yew in having white berries conifer, coniferous tree any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones 2n wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows Hyper wood the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees |
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