yew

English - Turkish

Definition of yew in English Turkish dictionary

porsuk ağacı

Kuzgun, eski porsuk ağacından gakladı. - The raven croaked from the old yew-tree.

porsukağacı

porsuk

Kuzgun, eski porsuk ağacından gakladı. - The raven croaked from the old yew-tree.

(isim) porsukağacı

i., bot. porsukağacı

Taxus bacata

Related Terms

yew tree

porsukağacı

common yew

(Botanik, Bitkibilim) porsuk ağacı

plum yew

erik porsuk ağacı

English - English

Definition of yew in English English dictionary

Made from the wood of the yew tree

The wood of the yew

A tree or shrub of the genus Taxus, with dark-green flat needle like leaves and seeds bearing red arils

{n} the name of a very hardy tree

wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows

It is light red in color, compact, fine-grained, and very elastic

It frequently grows in British churchyards

The wood that the English long bow was traditionally made from

A bow for shooting, made of the yew

any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows

A yew or a yew tree is an evergreen tree. It has sharp leaves which are broad and flat, and red berries. Yew is the wood of this tree. a tree with dark green leaves and red berries, or the wood of this tree. Any of about eight species of ornamental evergreens in the genus Taxus, family Taxaceae (the yew family), distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Two species are always shrubby, but the others may reach heights of 77 ft (25 m). The plants have many branches, covered with needlelike leaves. Yew wood is hard, fine-grained, and heavy, with white or creamy sapwood and amber to brown heartwood. Once popular for cabinetwork, implements, and archery bows, it is used more today for articles either carved or turned on a lathe. Other trees called yew but not in this family are the plum-yew (family Cephalotaxaceae) and Prince Albert yew (family Podocarpaceae)

any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves

An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone

Any of several coniferous trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Taxus Canada Yew (Taxus canadensis) is a shrub native to the North Woods and a favored moose browse From the Old English iw or eow

Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock

evergreen tree of the taxus genus, as in: The finest bows are made of yew wood

It is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from Spain

{i} evergreen tree with poisonous needles; wood of yew tree; bow made of yew wood (Archaic)

Related Terms

Japanese yew

Taxus cuspidata

A yew

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Lee Kuan Yew

born Sept. 16, 1923, Singapore Prime minister of Singapore (1959-90). Born to a wealthy Chinese family, Lee studied at the University of Cambridge and became a lawyer and a socialist. He worked as a legal adviser to labour unions and won election to Singapore's legislative council in 1955, while the country was still a British crown colony. He helped Singapore achieve self-government and, running as an anticolonialist and anticommunist, was elected prime minister in 1959. His numerous reforms included the emancipation of women. He briefly entered Singapore in the Federation of Malaysia (1963-65); on its withdrawal, Singapore became a sovereign state. Lee industrialized the country and made Singapore the most prosperous nation in Southeast Asia. He achieved both labour peace and a rising standard of living for workers, though his mildly authoritarian government at times infringed on civil liberties

Pacific yew

A yew (Taxus brevifolia) of western North America having bark that is a natural source of the drug paclitaxel

The yew

eugh

florida yew

small bushy yew of northern Florida having spreading branches and very narrow leaves

japanese yew

shrubby hardy evergreen of China and Japan having lustrous dark green foliage; cultivated in the eastern United States

new caledonian yew

large yew native to New Caledonia; cultivated in eastern Australia and New Zealand and Hawaii

old world yew

predominant yew in Europe; extraordinarily long-lived and slow growing; one of the oldest species in the world

pacific yew

small or medium irregularly branched tree of the Pacific coast of North America; yields fine hard close-grained wood

parasite yew

rare and endangered monoecious parasitic conifer of New Caledonia; parasitic on Falcatifolium taxoides

plum-fruited yew

South American evergreen tree or shrub

plum-yew

any of several evergreen trees and shrubs of eastern Asia resembling yew and having large seeds enclosed in a fleshy envelope; sometimes cultivated as ornamentals

prince albert yew

small yew having attractive foliage and partially weeping branches cultivated as an ornamental; mountains of southern Chile

white-berry yew

yew of southeastern China, differing from the Old World yew in having white berries

yews

plural of yew

yews

taxus

Turkish pronunciation

yu

Pronunciation

/ˈyo͞o/ /ˈjuː/

Etymology

[ 'yü ] (noun.) before 12th century. Middle English ew, from Old English īw (“yew, yew-tree”), from Proto-Germanic *īhwaz (“yew”) (compare Middle Dutch iwe, German Eibe, Old Norse ýr, Old English ēoh (“yew-tree”)), from Proto-Indo-European *eik-u̯o (compare Welsh yw 'yew'), from *h₁eiu̯os (compare Hittite eja 'type of evergreen', Latin uva 'grape', Lithuanian ievà 'bird cherry', Russian ива (íva, “willow”), Ancient Greek ὀά (οa, “service tree”) (gen. ὀίη), Old Armenian այգի (aygi, “vineyard”)).