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yew Definition


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yew
noun
    1. Any of various cone-bearing evergreen trees or shrubs with reddish-brown flaky bark and narrow flattened dark-green leaves.
    2. The hard close-grained reddish-brown wood of this tree, formerly the source of the finest longbows.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon iw.

Info:
    There is sometimes a spelling confusion between yew and ewe.


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