Definition of Pacific Yew in English :

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Pacific Yew meaning in English

Meaning of Pacific Yew in English

Pronunciation of Pacific Yew in English

Pacific Yew pronunciation in English

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Pacific Yew

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Noun

1. california yew, pacific yew, taxus brevifolia, western yew

small or medium irregularly branched tree of the Pacific coast of North America; yields fine hard close-grained wood

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Pacific Yew

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n.
A yew (Taxus brevifolia) of western North America having bark that is a natural source of the drug paclitaxel.

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