yew suomeksi - Sanakirja.org (englanti-suomi)

(countable) A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.
(countable, by extension) Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus.
Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus
in family Podocarpaceae
in family Cephalotaxaceae
(uncountable) The wood of the such trees.
A bow for archery, made of yew wood.

To prevent a too great consumption of yew, bowyers were directed to make four bows of witch-hazel, ash or elm, to one of yew, and no person under seventeen years of age, unless possessed of moveables worth forty marks, of the son of parents having an estate of ten pounds per annum might shoot in an yew bow, under a penalty of 6s. 8d.

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