western yew

western yew
noun
small or medium irregularly branched tree of the Pacific coast of North America; yields fine hard close-grained wood
Hypernyms: ↑yew
Member Holonyms: ↑Taxus, ↑genus Taxus

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noun

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western yew,
= Pacific yew. (Cf.Pacific yew)

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