JAPANESE YEW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Japanese yew mean? 

• JAPANESE YEW (noun)
  The noun JAPANESE YEW has 1 sense:

1. shrubby hardy evergreen of China and Japan having lustrous dark green foliage; cultivated in the eastern United States

  Familiarity information: JAPANESE YEW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JAPANESE YEW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrubby hardy evergreen of China and Japan having lustrous dark green foliage; cultivated in the eastern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Japanese yew; Taxus cuspidata

Hypernyms ("Japanese yew" is a kind of...):

yew (any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves)

Holonyms ("Japanese yew" is a member of...):

genus Taxus; Taxus (yews)