yew family
11Family dictatorship — A family dictatorship, in political science terms a personalistic regime, is a form of dictatorship that operates much like an absolute monarchy, yet occurs in a nominally republican state. That is to say, the key leader is a president or prime… …
12Loke Yew — Infobox Person name = Loke Yew image size = caption = birth name = Wong Loke Yew (黃如佑;Huáng Rúyòu) birth date = 1845 birth place = he shan, Guangdong Province CHN death date = 24 February 1917 death place = Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya death… …
13List of trees and shrubs by taxonomic family — The following is a list of trees and shrubs of high notoriety. Taxonomic families for the following trees and shrubs are listed in alphabetical order, likewise the genera and closely related species.=GYMNOSPERMS= =CONIFERS= Araucariaceae: The… …
14English yew — a yew, Taxus baccata, of Eurasia and northern Africa, grown as an ornamental. [1925 30] * * * ▪ plant also called common yew, or European yew (all three are lumber trade names), an ornamental evergreen tree or shrub of the yew family… …
15Pacific yew — ▪ plant also called western yew, California yew, Oregon yew, or American yew (Taxus brevifolia), an evergreen timber tree of the yew family (Taxaceae). It is the only commercially important yew native to North America, where it is found… …
16Japanese yew — a yew, Taxus cuspidata, of Japan, grown as an ornamental. * * * ▪ plant also called spreading yew (Taxus cuspidata) an ornamental evergreen shrub or tree of the yew family (Taxaceae), native to Japan and widely cultivated in the Northern… …
17gymnosperm family — noun a family of gymnosperms • Hypernyms: ↑plant family • Hyponyms: ↑Gnetaceae, ↑family Gnetaceae, ↑Ephedraceae, ↑family Ephedraceae, ↑Welwitschiaceae, ↑family We …
18stinking yew — ▪ tree also called fetid yew, Florida torreya, or stinking cedar (species Torreya taxifolia), an ornamental evergreen conifer tree of the yew family (Taxaceae), limited in distribution to western Florida and southwestern Georgia, U.S. The …
19Irish yew — a variety of yew, Taxus baccata stricta, of Eurasia and northern Africa, having upright branches and dark green foliage with color variations. * * * ornamental evergreen of the yew family. See English yew. * * * …
20plum-yew — ▪ plant (Cephalotaxus species), any of about seven species of small coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus Cephalotaxus, comprising the plum yew family (Cephalotaxaceae). Native to central and eastern Asia, these plants are used in many… …
