Definition of "yews" []

• Plural form of yew. (noun)

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• "The yew tribe has fewer genera or species; but the trees in America known as yews and hemlocks -- of which there are several varieties -- belong to it."
• "Thus we have seen how, after recognising basaltic formations, the observers discovered flowers: they next see a lunar forest, whose 'trees were of one unvaried kind, and unlike any on earth except the largest kind of yews in the English churchyards.'"
• "For conifers, such as yews, junipers and arborvitae, the advice isn't as straightforward."