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