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- noun Plural form of
yew .
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Examples
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The yew tribe has fewer genera or species; but the trees in America known as yews and hemlocks -- of which there are several varieties -- belong to it.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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The yew tribe has fewer genera or species; but the trees in America known as yews and hemlocks -- of which there are several varieties -- belong to it.
The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Mayne Reid 1850
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Thus we have seen how, after recognising basaltic formations, the observers discovered flowers: they next see a lunar forest, whose 'trees were of one unvaried kind, and unlike any on earth except the largest kind of yews in the English churchyards.'
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Formal hedges may be established from a wide range of evergreens and deciduous species, evergreen conifers such as yews often doubling up as a boundary and backdrop for herbaceous perennials.
WalesOnline - Home 2010
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For conifers, such as yews, junipers and arborvitae, the advice isn't as straightforward.
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Both needle evergreens, such as yews and arborvitae, and broadleaf evergreens, including rhododendron and boxwood, benefit from late-fall rains.
News 2009
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Both needle evergreens, such as yews and arborvitae, and broadleaf evergreens, including rhododendron and boxwood, benefit from late-fall rains.
News 2009
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Both needle evergreens, such as yews and arborvitae, and broadleaf evergreens, including rhododendron and boxwood, benefit from late-fall rains.
News 2009
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Both needle evergreens, such as yews and arborvitae, and broadleaf evergreens, including rhododendron and boxwood, benefit from late-fall rains.
News 2009
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Just look around and you'll see that many Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., homeowners have overgrown landscapes - rhododendrons so old that they cover the windows and 30-year-old yews that have been sheared so often they now resemble green blimps.
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