yew
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 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
Types & categories
- wood hypernym
Parts & wholes
- yew substance holonym
Sense 2 noun
any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves
Types & categories
- conifer hypernym
- California nutmeg hyponym
- stinking cedar hyponym
- Old World yew hyponym
- Pacific yew hyponym
- Japanese yew hyponym
- Florida yew hyponym
- New Caledonian yew hyponym
- white-berry yew hyponym
Parts & wholes
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | substance holonym | Parts & wholes | yew |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | wood |
| 2 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Taxaceae |
| 2 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | yew |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | conifer |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | California nutmeg |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | stinking cedar |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | Old World yew |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | Pacific yew |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | Japanese yew |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | Florida yew |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | New Caledonian yew |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | white-berry yew |