yew

1. Wood of a yew;
   Especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows (synset 111682158)
   is a type of: wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
   substance meronym: yew - any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves
2. Any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves (synset 111681823)
   is a type of: conifer, coniferous tree - any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones
   subtypes:

   • california nutmeg, nutmeg-yew, torreya californica - California evergreen having a fruit resembling a nutmeg but with a strong turpentine flavor
   • stinking cedar, stinking yew, torrey tree, torreya taxifolia - rare small evergreen of northern Florida; its glossy green leaves have an unpleasant fetid smell when crushed
   • english yew, old world yew, taxus baccata - predominant yew in Europe; extraordinarily long-lived and slow growing; one of the oldest species in the world
   • california yew, pacific yew, taxus brevifolia, western yew - small or medium irregularly branched tree of the Pacific coast of North America; yields fine hard close-grained wood
   • japanese yew, taxus cuspidata - shrubby hardy evergreen of China and Japan having lustrous dark green foliage; cultivated in the eastern United States
   • florida yew, taxus floridana - small bushy yew of northern Florida having spreading branches and very narrow leaves
   • austrotaxus spicata, new caledonian yew - large yew native to New Caledonia; cultivated in eastern Australia and New Zealand and Hawaii
   • pseudotaxus chienii, white-berry yew - yew of southeastern China, differing from the Old World yew in having white berries
   belongs to: family taxaceae, taxaceae, yew family - sometimes classified as member of order Taxales
   substance holonym: yew - wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows

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