yew的意思|yew的解释-里氏词典

yew [ju:]

n. 紫杉

yew

[ noun ]

wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows

<noun.plant>

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

<noun.plant>

Yew \Yew\, n. [OE. ew, AS. e['o]w, [=i]w, eoh; akin to D. ijf,
OHG. [=i]wa, [=i]ha, G. eibe, Icel. [=y]r; cf. Ir. iubhar,
Gael. iubhar, iughar, W. yw, ywen, Lith. j["e]va the black
alder tree.]
1. (Bot.) An evergreen tree ({Taxus baccata}) of Europe,
allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit
instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British
churchyards.

2. The wood of the yew. It is light red in color, compact,
fine-grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all
other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for
these purposes coming from Spain.

Note: The {American yew} ({Taxus baccata}, var. {Canadensis})
is a low and straggling or prostrate bush, never
forming an erect trunk. The {California yew} ({Taxus
brevifolia}) is a good-sized tree, and its wood is used
for bows, spear handles, paddles, and other similar
implements. Another yew is found in Florida, and there
are species in Japan and the Himalayas.

3. A bow for shooting, made of the yew.

Yew \Yew\ ([=u]), v. i.
See {Yaw}.

Yew \Yew\ ([=u]), a.
Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew
tree; as, a yew whipstock.

The vandalism was the first incident of desecration to the memorial since someone tried to burn down six yew bushes at the site 10 years ago, Spiegel said.
Still, in their passionate advocacy of trees, some yew partisans make comments that seem to lack compassion.
The agricultural biotechnology concern reported that it has made progress in laboratory production of a cancer drug that is currently derived from yew trees.
She has also planted more yew hedging than most of us do in a lifetime; she rightly tells us to ignore contrary advice and never to cut the top of a yew hedge until it has reached the height which we want.
She has also planted more yew hedging than most of us do in a lifetime; she rightly tells us to ignore contrary advice and never to cut the top of a yew hedge until it has reached the height which we want.
He says he has mixed feelings about this sudden interest in the yew tree.
These include an Alice in Wonderland labyrinth in Dorset which portrays the Mad Hatter and other creatures from the story and a yew hedge maze at Leeds Castle incorporating a grotto.
Through this process, the company said, cells from the roots, leaves and steams of the yew tree are isolated and grown in culture using fermentation processes that stimulate the cells to produce large quantities of taxol.
I feel confident that if Mr. Rust or a member of his family or a close personal friend were to be diagnosed with cancer, his commitment to the Pacific yew and the spotted owl would change, or I would certainly hope it would.
That may change with the discovery that taxol, a compound found in the bark and other parts of trees of the yew, or taxus, genus, holds promise as a treatment for ovarian cancer.
EDF and the Wilderness Fund petitioned the secretaries of the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior to set rules requiring timber companies to allow yew bark collection prior to logging on federal lands.

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