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YEW


'Yew' may refer to:
In '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.'')

★ Specific trees:


Fortingall Yew, the oldest tree in Europe
As a 'place name':

★ in Singapore:


Yew Tee, a 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, a Site of Special Scientific Interest
As a 'fictional place name':

Yew Dales, the home of Ull the winter god in Norse mythology

Yew, a city-state in the fictional Ultima universe
As the title of a 'novel':

The Rose and the Yew Tree by Agatha Christie

The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum
As a 'name':

Lui Tuck Yew, Singaporean rear admiral

Lim Yew Hock, Singaporean chief minister

Lee Kuan Yew, Singaporean prime minister
'Other':

Yew Chung International School

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