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TAXUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Yews

Synonyms:

genus Taxus; Taxus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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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