Definition of: yew

(y) noun
1. Any one of several evergreen trees or shrubs (genus Taxus), with flat, lanceolate, dark-green leaves and a red berrylike fruit; especially, the European or English yew (T. baccata), a medium-sized coniferous tree of slow growth and long life, with spreading horizontal branches and dense dark-green foliage.
2. The hard, fine-grained, durable wood of the common yew, of a purplish or deep-brown color.
3. A bow made from the wood of the yew tree. ♦ Homophones: ewe, you. [OE ēow, īw]
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