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    YEW FAMILY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Sometimes classified as member of order Taxalesplay

    Synonyms:

    family Taxaceae; Taxaceae; yew family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("yew family" is a kind of...):

    gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)

    Meronyms (members of "yew family"):

    genus Taxus; Taxus (yews)

    yew (any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves)

    Austrotaxus; genus Austrotaxus (a gymnosperm genus having one species: New Caledonian yew)

    genus Pseudotaxus; Pseudotaxus (one species)

    Holonyms ("yew family" is a member of...):

    Coniferales; order Coniferales (profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leaves)

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