Definitions for yew

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Spelling: [yoo]

IPA: /yu/

Yew is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in yew (ewy).

Definitions for yew

noun

1. any of several evergreen, coniferous trees and shrubs of the genera Taxus and Torreya, constituting the family Taxaceae, of the Old World, North America, and Japan, having needlelike or scalelike foliage and seeds enclosed in a fleshy aril.
2. the fine-grained, elastic wood of any of these trees.
3. an archer's bow made of this wood.
4. this tree or its branches as a symbol of sorrow, death, or resurrection.

pronoun

1. you.

Origin of yew

before 900; Middle English ew(e), Old English ēow, ī(o)w; cognate with Old High German īga, īwa (Middle High German īwe, German Eibe), Old Norse ýr, MIr eó yew (Old Irish: stem, shaft), Welsh

Examples for yew

You would do right, the yew is indeed a venerable tree, but it is not about the yew.

There is a flower garden whose beds are edged with box and yew.

Lady Locke, will you come for a stroll in the yew tree walk?

He moved a little from the yew tree, and whispered: "Megan!"

All about the green square mound the trees are thick—laurel, fir, and yew.

"Why, Miss Nell, it be yew sure enough," she said pleasantly.

The needles of the yew tree can kill you, but the bark is important for many modern drugs.

The Enchanted Island of yew by L. Frank Baum The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox Jr.

Admirers of yew trees should make a point of visiting Bignor churchyard.

You would do right; the yew is indeed a venerable tree, but it is not about the yew.