Word Finder - yew

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A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.

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(by extension) Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus.

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Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus

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The wood of the such trees.

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A bow for archery, made of yew wood.

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Made from the wood of the yew tree.

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• yewen

We have also the yew, the hazel, juniper, walnut, wild peach and almond.

The garden has the oldest yew hedge maze in England.

At the base are found vines and maize; on the lower slopes are green pastures, or wheat, barley and other kinds of corn; above are often forests of oak, ash, elm, &c.; and still higher the yew and the fir may be seen braving the climatic conditions.

They claimed to be able to foretell the future by watching the clouds, or by means of divining-rods made of yew.

Around the wall in the houses of the wealthy were arranged the bedsteads, or rather compartments, with testers and fronts, sometimes made of carved yew.

Yew is especially abundant on the scree immediately below the Scar.

I do not know of any other garden, real or fictitious, claiming to have a " yew alley " .

Current Status Biological status lowland beech and yew woodland spans a variety of distinctive vegetation types reflecting differences in soil and topographical conditions.

Calcareous beech and yew woodland forms perhaps 40% of the total amount of lowland beech and yew habitat type defined above.

Red backed hawks and crested caracara competed for perches in the few yew trees I was camping in the shelter of.

However, a shortage of yew trees meant that ash, elm or wych elm were also used.

At maturity, this yew will be about twelve feet tall with a five foot girth but may be kept smaller by regular clipping.

This is in origin a Celtic name perhaps meaning ' yew grove ' .

Plant a traditional yew hedge for a perfect finish.

Yew and juniper, and the broadleaved evergreen holly are best grown in containers, and planted out when 2-3 years old.

A yew hedge screens the approaches to the formal gardens near the house, where a north-south path is edged with pale blue iris.

Probably the most outstanding example is the growing of yew trees in the churchyards to supply the wood for making the longbows.

The large walled garden has been restored to its 18 th -century formal design and has a Victorian parterre and yew walk.

Leaf shaped silver pendant with a large section of Yew inlayed.

Hawthorn is the best hedge, followed by holly, yew and wild privet.

His large grave is guarded by railings in the southeast corner of the churchyard, beneath the great yew.

A gnarly old yew tree reputed to be anywhere between 3000-5000 years old, it is the oldest living organism in the UK.

Unfortunately Queen Anne, who hated yew, had it all uprooted and redesigned the garden.

Archeologists have recently found well-preserved Yew wood carvings at ancient sites of springs and wells which were probably votive offerings.

The history of the sacred yew can be sketched in outline.

His grave is beside no church, neither under the shadow of any ancient yew.

Florence Court's most notable tree, the Irish yew, grows in a much wilder part of the estate.

More information 3rd February 2003 300 year old yew saved from the chop!

Carolyn and Carole planted some green yew (Taxus baccata) in these boxes.

Tuesday, September 07, 2004 Where have yew been?

There is little sound except for the breeze stirring in the churchyard yew trees.

In all three zones occur the chestnut, aspen, willow (especially Salix laurea), hornbeam, birch, alder, juniper and yew; while the mountain ash, hazel, wild plum, wild pear and other wild fruit trees are found at rarer intervals.

Florence Court 's most notable tree, the Irish Yew, grows in a much wilder part of the estate.

More information 3rd February 2003 300 year old yew saved from the chop !

Tuesday, September 07, 2004 Where have Yew been?

The boundary to the road consists of a low red brick wall planted with mature yew hedging.

The garden still contains a yew tree which he planted in 1645.

The yew woodland is an outstanding example of a habitat with a very small representation in Britain.

The body doesn't care about the source of chemicals broken down during digestion; a completely natural plant such as yew or foxglove can be poisonous, while a man-made aspirin, benign.

It would prove, I think, a good evergreen hedge plant where the dangerous poison of our own Yew makes its use impossible in any place to which horses or cattle have access.

Plumfruited Yew (Prumnopitys Elegans) - An evergreen tree from chili, allied to the common Yew, of dense growth and cheerful green color.

Podocarpus - Evergreen trees of the Yew tribe, tender in Britain save in the mildest parts.

At Castlewellan it is planted in a shady border near a large Yew hedge, in peat, leaf soil, and loam in equal proportions.

All chlorophyll plants require light, but in very different degrees, as exemplified even in the United Kingdom by the shade-bearing beech and yew contrasted with the light-demanding larch and birch; and as with temperature so with light, every plant and even every organ has its optimum of illumination.

Among them are the beech, ash, birch, maple, cypress and yew.

The trees chiefly used for the hedges, and the best for the purpose, are the hornbeam among deciduous trees, or the yew among evergreens.

Of the Coniferae, Podocarpus and Pinus longifolia alone descend to the tropical zone; Abies Brunoniana and Smithiana and the larch (a genus not seen in the western mountains) are found at 8000, and the yew and Picea Webbiana at 10,000 ft.

Resin-canals, which occur abundantly in the xylem, phloem or cortex, are not found in the wood of the yew.

These were made of bronze backed with wood, or of yew covered with hide.

Beyond the flowering cherries, is the serpentine yew tunnel, which runs the full length of the lawn.