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# yew

«yew» in Mova's school dictionary: **an evergreen tree with dark green, flat needles and red…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a yew, yews; yew, uncountable for the wood)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A yew is an evergreen tree with dark green, flat needles and red berry-like cones; it can live for a very long time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yew/#m1)

2) Yew is the hard, bendy wood of this tree, once used to make longbows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yew/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and nature lessons, yews grow in churchyards and gardens in the UK and Ireland, and they are among the oldest living trees. Safety: almost all parts of the yew are very poisonous to people and animals, so never eat the seeds or leaves. In history, English archers' longbows were made of yew. Phrases: «yew tree», «yew hedge», «yew longbow».

### examples

- An ancient yew tree grew in the churchyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yew/#x1)
- Never eat yew berries; the seeds are poisonous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yew/#x2)
- The yew hedge was trimmed into neat shapes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yew/#x3)
- Longbows were made from yew wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yew/#x4)
- A yew stays green all winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yew/#x5)
- Some yews are more than a thousand years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yew/#x6)
- As soon as the frog had recovered her senses she hopped up to the queen, who was still sitting under the yew. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yew/#x7)

### note

Countable for trees, uncountable for the wood. Homophones: «yew» sounds like «you» and «ewe» (a female sheep). The red fleshy part is called an aril; the seed inside is poisonous.

### In the corpora

- [Yews can live well over a thousand years, and some in British churchyards are among the oldest trees in Europe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/392-poisonous-plants-to-stay-away-from-berries-foxglove-yew-and-nightshade/10/)
- [Some common garden and wild plants, such as foxglove and yew, are poisonous if eaten.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/24/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «yew» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yew/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.