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Definition of Taxus
1. Noun. Yews.
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Genus
Group relationships: Family Taxaceae, Taxaceae, Yew Family
Member holonyms: English Yew, Old World Yew, Taxus Baccata, California Yew, Pacific Yew, Taxus Brevifolia, Western Yew, Japanese Yew, Taxus Cuspidata, Florida Yew, Taxus Floridana
Definition of Taxus
1. an evergreen tree or shrub [n TAXUS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Taxus
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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