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yewAny of a group of evergreen coniferous trees native to the northern hemisphere. The dark green flat needlelike leaves and bright red berrylike seeds are poisonous; the wood is hard and close-grained. (Genus Taxus, family Taxaceae.) The western or Pacific yew (T. brevifolia) is native to North America. English yew (T. baccata) is widely cultivated as an ornamental tree. The wood was formerly used to make longbows. The anticancer drug taxol is synthesized from the bark of the Pacific yew. |
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| So up he got and took his good stout yew bow and a score or more of broad clothyard arrows, and started off from Locksley Town through Sherwood Forest to Nottingham. A well-kept lawn, with six-hundred-years-old cedars and a twenty-feet yew hedge, will add distinction to the meal.
The bow was made in England:
Of true wood, of yew wood,
The wood of English bows;
So men who are free
Love the old yew tree
And the land where the yew tree grows. |
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