Yew

//juː//

Synonyms for "yew" (12 found)

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Closest matches (3)

Noun(1 words)

Strong matches (3)

Related words (6)

Related word relations

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Translations

162 translations across 64 languages.

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Albanian

2 entries
  • bërshen noun (Taxus baccata)
  • enjë noun (Taxus baccata)

Ancient Greek

2 entries
  • σμῖλαξ noun (Taxus baccata)
  • τάξος noun (Taxus baccata)

Arabic

4 entries
  • زَرْنَب noun (Taxus baccata)
  • زَرْنَب noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • طَخْش noun (Taxus baccata)
  • طَخْش noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Aragonese

2 entries
  • teix noun (Taxus baccata)
  • teix noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Armenian

2 entries
  • գեղձի noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • կենի noun (Taxus baccata)

Asturian

1 entries
  • texu noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Basque

2 entries
  • hagin noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • hagina noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Breton

2 entries
  • ivin noun (Taxus baccata)
  • ivin noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • тисов adj (made from the wood of the yew tree)
  • тис noun (Taxus baccata)

Catalan

3 entries
  • teix noun (Taxus baccata)
  • teix noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • teixeda noun (wood of the yew)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries
  • 歐洲紫杉 /欧洲紫杉 noun (Taxus baccata)
  • 紅豆杉 /红豆杉 noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • 紫杉 noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Cimbrian

1 entries
  • aiba noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Cornish

2 entries
  • ewinen noun (Taxus baccata)
  • ywin noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Czech

2 entries
  • tis noun (Taxus baccata)
  • tis noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Danish

4 entries
  • taks noun (Taxus baccata)
  • taks noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • takstræ noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • takstræ noun (wood of the yew)

Dutch

4 entries
  • ijf noun (Taxus baccata)
  • taxus noun (Taxus baccata)
  • taxusboom noun (Taxus baccata)
  • taxushout noun (wood of the yew)

Esperanto

2 entries
  • taksuso noun (Taxus baccata)
  • taksuso noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Estonian

3 entries
  • jugapuu noun (Taxus baccata)
  • jugapuu noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • jugapuu noun (wood of the yew)

Faroese

2 entries
  • taks noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • takstræ noun (Taxus baccata)

Finnish

4 entries
  • marjakuusesta adj (made from the wood of the yew tree)
  • marjakuusinen adj (made from the wood of the yew tree)
  • euroopanmarjakuusi noun (Taxus baccata)
  • marjakuusi noun (Taxus baccata)

French

2 entries
  • if noun (Taxus baccata)
  • if noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Galician

4 entries
  • teixo noun (Taxus baccata)
  • teixo noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • teixoeira noun (Taxus baccata)
  • teixoeira noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Georgian

2 entries
  • ურთხელი noun (Taxus baccata)
  • ურთხელი noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

German

4 entries
  • eiben adj (made from the wood of the yew tree)
  • Eibe noun (Taxus baccata)
  • Eibe noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • Eibenholz noun (wood of the yew)

Greek

2 entries
  • ίταμος noun (Taxus baccata)
  • τάξος noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Gutnish

1 entries
  • äidigrän noun (Taxus baccata)

Hungarian

3 entries
  • tiszafa noun (Taxus baccata)
  • tiszafa noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • tiszafa noun (wood of the yew)

Icelandic

2 entries
  • ýviður noun (Taxus baccata)
  • ýviður noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Ido

1 entries
  • taxuso noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Irish

4 entries
  • crann iúir noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • iúr noun (Taxus baccata)
  • iúr noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • iúr noun (wood of the yew)

Italian

3 entries
  • tasso noun (Taxus baccata)
  • tasso noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • tasso noun (wood of the yew)

Japanese

4 entries
  • イチイ noun (Taxus baccata)
  • イチイ noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • イチイ noun (wood of the yew)
  • 一位 noun (Taxus baccata)

Korean

1 entries
  • 주목속 noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Latin

2 entries
  • taxus noun (Taxus baccata)
  • taxus noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Latvian

2 entries
  • īve noun (Taxus baccata)
  • īve noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Laz

1 entries
  • ანკრა noun (Taxus baccata)

Lithuanian

2 entries
  • kukmedis noun (Taxus baccata)
  • kukmedis noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Low German

4 entries
  • Ief noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • Iev noun (Taxus baccata)
  • Iev noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • Ievenboom noun (Taxus baccata)

Nahuatl

2 entries
  • pesojtli noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • tekosantli noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Norman

1 entries
  • if noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries
  • barlind noun (Taxus baccata)
  • barlind noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries
  • barlind noun (Taxus baccata)
  • barlind noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Occitan

2 entries
  • teis noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • tueis noun (Taxus baccata)

Old English

1 entries
  • īw noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Old French

2 entries
  • iv noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • ivo noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Old High German

1 entries
  • īwa noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Old Norse

1 entries
  • ýr noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Persian

1 entries
  • سرخدار noun (Taxus baccata)

Polish

4 entries
  • cisowy adj (made from the wood of the yew tree)
  • cis noun (Taxus baccata)
  • cis noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • cis noun (wood of the yew)

Portuguese

3 entries
  • teixo noun (Taxus baccata)
  • teixo noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • teixo noun (wood of the yew)

Romanian

3 entries
  • tisă noun (Taxus baccata)
  • tisă noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • tisă noun (wood of the yew)

Romansch

1 entries
  • taisch noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Russian

4 entries
  • ти́совый adj (made from the wood of the yew tree)
  • тис noun (Taxus baccata)
  • тис noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • тис noun (wood of the yew)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries
  • iubhar noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • iubhar noun (wood of the yew)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • tȉsa noun (Taxus baccata)
  • tȉsa noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • ти̏са noun (Taxus baccata)
  • ти̏са noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Slovak

1 entries
  • tis noun (Taxus baccata)

Slovene

2 entries
  • tisa noun (Taxus baccata)
  • tisa noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Spanish

3 entries
  • tejo noun (Taxus baccata)
  • tejo noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • tejo noun (wood of the yew)

Swedish

4 entries
  • idegran noun (Taxus baccata)
  • idegran noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • idegran noun (wood of the yew)
  • idegransträ noun (wood of the yew)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • teho noun (Taxus baccata)

Turkish

3 entries
  • porsuk noun (Taxus baccata)
  • porsuk ağacı noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • porsuk ağacı noun (wood of the yew)

Ukrainian

3 entries
  • тис noun (Taxus baccata)
  • тис noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • тис noun (wood of the yew)

Volapük

2 entries
  • taxud noun (Taxus baccata)
  • taxud noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)

Welsh

3 entries
  • yw noun (Taxus baccata)
  • yw noun (tree or shrub of the genus Taxus)
  • yw noun (wood of the yew)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

"Do you know what kind of tree you just broke?" "No, I don't," I answered the detective. While looking through the open door, the detective shouted, "Hey, do you know what kind of tree he just broke?" "Um, looks like it's a yew plum pine," said the voice of a young woman. After straightening himself in his seat, the detective asked me one more time: "Do you know what kind of tree you just broke?"

Source: tatoeba (1487712)

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.

Source: wiktionary

Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.

Source: wiktionary

At Darley Dale, in Derbyshire, there is another yew about 1,000 years younger with a 32 ft girth, while a mighty yew at Goudhurst, Kent, has a bench seating 12 in its hollow trunk.

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.