yew

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 代词 pron.
中文释义
发音 yo͞o

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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
    — Old Yew, which graspest at the stones ⁠That name the under-lying dead, ⁠Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapt about the bones.
  2. Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus. broadly,countable
  3. Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus:; in family Podocarpaceae. countable,uncountable
  4. Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus:; in family Cephalotaxaceae. countable,uncountable
  5. The wood of such trees. uncountable
    — To prevent a too great conſumption of yew, bowyers were directed to make four bows of witch-haſel, aſh or elm, to one of yew, and no perſon under ſeventeen years of age, unleſs poſſeſſed of moveables worth forty marks, or the ſon of parents having an eſtate of ten pounds per annum might ſhoot in an yew bow, under a penalty of 6s. 8d.
  6. A bow for archery, made of yew wood. countable,uncountable
形容词 adj.
  1. Made from the wood of the yew tree. not-comparable
代词 pron.
  1. Eye dialect spelling of you. alt-of,pronunciation-spelling
    — A spinoff, “Major Crimes,” starring “Battlestar Galactica” veteran Mary McDonnell and a number of “Closer” cast members, premieres in August. Sedgwick won’t be among them, swapping Brenda’s syrupy “thank yew” for an upbeat “buh-bye now” to her co-workers.

词形变化

yews plural ew alternative,obsolete ew alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
Anglojap yew Canadian yew catkin yew Chinese yewcommon yew Eubank Ewbank European yew Florida yew Himalayan yew Japanese yew Mexican yew New Caledonian yew southern yew nutmeg yew Pacific yew plum yew plum-yew Prince Albert's yew self-yew Sumatran yew western yew white-berry yew yew pine

词源

From Middle English ew, from Old English īw, ēow, [both cognates of Welsh yw (“yews”), Irish eo, Old Irish eó respectively]; although the Old English form was conjectured to be from Proto-West Germanic *īhu, from Proto-Germanic *īhwaz (compare Icelandic ýr), masculine variant of *īwō (compare Dutch ijf, German Eibe), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw-.
See also Hittite 𒄑𒂊𒅀𒀭 (eyan, “type of evergreen”), Latgalian īva (“bird cherry”), Lithuanian ievà (“bird cherry”), Russian и́ва (íva, “willow”).
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