Definition of Taxus

1. Noun. Yews.


Definition of Taxus

1. an evergreen tree or shrub [n TAXUS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Taxus

Tawara's node
Tawe
Tawney
Taxaceae
Taxales
Taxidea
Taxidea taxus
Taxodiaceae
Taxodium
Taxodium ascendens
Taxodium distichum
Taxodium mucronatum
Taxol
Taxophytina
Taxopsida
Taxus (current term)
Taxus baccata
Taxus brevifolia
Taxus cuspidata
Taxus floridana
Tay
Tay's cherry-red spot
Tay-Sachs
Tay-Sachs carrier
Tay-Sachs disease
Tayalic

Literary usage of Taxus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bradley Bibliography: A Guide to the Literature of the Woody Plants of by Alfred Rehder, Charles Sprague Sargent (1914)
"Rose, A. Ueber Taxus und sein Aussterben in Thüringen. (Monatschr. ... Einige Bemerkungen über die giftige Eigenschaft des Taxus, Taxus baccata L. (Schles. ..."

2. The Silva of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1910)
"Taxus L. YEW. Trees or shrubs with 2-ranked linear leaves. Stamens 8 to 12 in a cluster, ... Taxus brevifolia Nutt. WESTERN YEW. Plate 33, figs. 4, 5. ..."

3. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1908)
"Taxus baccata, L. Yew (Fig. 69). The apex of the seed is slightly pointed but devoid of scar; base with annular surface of attachment. ..."

4. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"Taxus baccata Linne var. Canadensis Gray. — American Yew, Ground Hemlock. Description. — Flowers dioecious or monoecious ; the sterile in small globular ..."

5. The Yew-trees of Great Britain and Ireland by John Lowe (1897)
"CHAPTER I Taxus baccata, L.—Varieties—Etymology ... Taxus baccata, Linn., the Common Yew, belongs to the genus Taxus, the type of the natural order ..."

6. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"Taxus. In the genus Taxus (Fig. 350) the female flower is composed of a single ovule which forms the end of a small shoot, and below the ovule there are a ..."

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