Welcome to the MedLibrary.org Wikipedia Supplement on Yew tree -- Please Click to Return to Front Page

Look up yew in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Yew may refer to:

Botany

• Any of various coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus Taxus:
  • European Yew or Common Yew (Taxus baccata)
  • Pacific Yew or Western Yew (Taxus brevifolia)
  • Canadian Yew (Taxus canadensis)
  • Chinese Yew (Taxus chinensis)
  • Japanese Yew (Taxus cuspidata)
  • Florida Yew (Taxus floridana)
  • Mexican Yew (Taxus globosa)
  • Sumatran Yew (Taxus sumatrana)
  • Himalayan Yew (Taxus wallichiana)
• Any of various coniferous plants in the families Taxaceae and Cephalotaxaceae:
  • White-berry Yew (Pseudotaxus chienii)
  • New Caledonian Yew or Southern Yew (Austrotaxus spicata)
  • Catkin-yew (Amentotaxus sp.)
  • Plum-yew (Cephalotaxus sp.)
• Any of the various coniferous plants in the family Podocarpaceae which are superficially similar to other yews:
  • Prince Albert's Yew (Saxegothaea conspicua)
  • Plum-yew (Prumnopitys sp.)

Specific trees

• Fortingall Yew, the oldest tree in Europe

Place names

• in Singapore:
  • Yew Tee, a district
  • Yew Tee MRT Station
  • Yew Lian Park
• in the United Kingdom
  • Yew Tree, Liverpool
  • Yew Tree Tarn, a lake in the Lake District
  • Yew Tree, West Bromwich
  • Kenn Church, Kenn Pier & Yew Tree Farm SSSI, a Site of Special Scientific Interest

Fictional place names

• Yew Dales, the home of Ull the winter god in Norse mythology
• Yew, a city-state in the fictional Ultima universe

Novels

• The Rose and the Yew Tree by Agatha Christie
• The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum

People

• Lui Tuck Yew, Singaporean rear admiral
• Lim Yew Hock, Singaporean chief minister
• Lee Kuan Yew, Singaporean prime minister

Others

• Yew Chung International School
• You (disambiguation)
• Ewe (disambiguation)

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

Wikipedia content modification information:

• This page was last modified on 1 November 2008, at 01:10.

Wikipedia Authorship and Review

Wikipedia content provided here is not reviewed directly by MedLibrary.org. Wikipedia content is authored by an open community of volunteers and is not produced by or in any way affiliated with MedLibrary.org.

Wikipedia Usage Guidelines

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on "Yew tree".

The URL for this specific entry is:

• http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/Yew_tree

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details). Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.