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YEW FAMILY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Sometimes classified as member of order Taxales

Synonyms:

family Taxaceae; Taxaceae; yew family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("yew family" is a kind of...):

gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "yew family"):

genus Taxus; Taxus (yews)

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

Austrotaxus; genus Austrotaxus (a gymnosperm genus having one species: New Caledonian yew)

genus Pseudotaxus; Pseudotaxus (one species)

Holonyms ("yew family" is a member of...):

Coniferales; order Coniferales (profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leaves)

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