japanese yew

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsTaxus cuspidata

   Broaderyew

   Part ofTaxus

Questions about japanese yew

What does japanese yew mean?

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

What is another word for japanese yew?

Close synonyms include Taxus cuspidata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is japanese yew a common word?

japanese yew is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.