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TAXUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Yews
Synonyms:
genus Taxus; Taxus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Taxus" is a kind of...):
gymnosperm genus (a genus of gymnosperms)
Meronyms (members of "Taxus"):
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)
Holonyms ("Taxus" is a member of...):
family Taxaceae; Taxaceae; yew family (sometimes classified as member of order Taxales)
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