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Yew

Yew may refer to:

Botany

Any of various coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus Taxus:
European Yew or Common Yew (Taxus baccata)
Pacific Yew or Western Yew (Taxus brevifolia)
Canadian Yew (Taxus canadensis)
Chinese Yew (Taxus chinensis)
Japanese Yew (Taxus cuspidata)
Florida Yew (Taxus floridana)
Mexican Yew (Taxus globosa)
Sumatran Yew (Taxus sumatrana)
Himalayan Yew (Taxus wallichiana)
Any of various coniferous plants in the families Taxaceae and Cephalotaxaceae:
White-berry Yew (Pseudotaxus chienii)
New Caledonian Yew or Southern Yew (Austrotaxus spicata)
Catkin-yew (Amentotaxus sp.)
Plum-yew (Cephalotaxus sp.)
Any of the various coniferous plants in the family Podocarpaceae, which are superficially similar to other yews:
Prince Albert's Yew (Saxegothaea conspicua)
Plum-yew (Prumnopitys sp.)

Place names

in Singapore:
Yew Tee, district
Yew Tee MRT Station
Yew Lian Park
in the United Kingdom
Yew Tree, Liverpool
Yew Tree Tarn, a lake in the Lake District
Yew Tree, West Bromwich
Kenn Church, Kenn Pier & Yew Tree Farm SSSI,

Fictional place names

Yew Dales (Ýdalir), the home of Ull, the winter god in Norse mythology
Yew, a city-state in the fictional Ultima universe

Others

You (disambiguation)
Ewe (disambiguation)

Source: Wikipedia

Translation of "Yew"

Spanish: Tejo, Portuguese: Tejo.


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