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YEW FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does yew family mean?
• YEW FAMILY (noun)
The noun YEW FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. sometimes classified as member of order Taxales
Familiarity information: YEW FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sometimes classified as member of order Taxales
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Taxaceae; Taxaceae; yew family
Hypernyms ("yew family" is a kind of...):
gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)
Meronyms (members of "yew family"):
genus Taxus; Taxus (yews)
yew (any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves)
Austrotaxus; genus Austrotaxus (a gymnosperm genus having one species: New Caledonian yew)
genus Pseudotaxus; Pseudotaxus (one species)
Holonyms ("yew family" is a member of...):
Coniferales; order Coniferales (profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leaves)
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