English Dictionary

yew

IPA（発音記号）

/juː/

名詞

可算名詞 広義 不可算名詞

(countable) A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.

日本語の意味

イチイ：針葉樹の一種で、Taxus baccataに属する。暗緑色の平たく針状の葉と、赤い苞（実の外側の部分）を持ち、西欧、中欧、南欧、北西アフリカ、北イラン、南西アジアなどが原産地となる。

A lone yew stood by the old churchyard, its dark needles barely moving in the wind.

古い教会の墓地のそばに一本の西洋イチイ（Taxus baccata）の木が立っていて、その濃い緑色の平たい針葉は風にほとんど揺れていなかった。

意味（1）

(countable) A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.

意味（2）

(countable, by extension) Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus.

意味（3）

in family Podocarpaceae

意味（4）

in family Cephalotaxaceae

意味（5）

(uncountable) The wood of the such trees.

To prevent a too great consumption of yew, bowyers were directed to make four bows of witch-hazel, ash or elm, to one of yew, and no person under seventeen years of age, unless possessed of moveables worth forty marks, of the son of parents having an estate of ten pounds per annum might shoot in an yew bow, under a penalty of 6s. 8d.

意味（6）

A bow for archery, made of yew wood.

yews （ plural ）