yew

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n. 紫杉

发音

UK /jɪʊ̯/
/juː/
US /jɪʊ̯/

词形变化

yews 复数 yews

别名

eugh yeugh ew

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.

    欧洲紫杉

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  2. 2.

    Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus.

    红豆杉

    紫杉

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  3. 3.

    Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus:

    in family Podocarpaceae.

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  4. 4.

    Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus:

    in family Cephalotaxaceae.

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  5. 5.

    The wood of such trees.

    不可数 可数
  6. 6.

    A bow for archery, made of yew wood.

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adj.
  1. 1.

    Made from the wood of the yew tree.

pron.
  1. 1.

    Eye dialect spelling of you.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

wood conifer

下位词 5

English yew Japanese yew nutmeg yew Pacific yew stinking cedar

相关短语

yew pine yew pines hold yew hard Japanese yew [网络] 日本紫杉；东北红豆杉 plum yew [医]粗榧属 nutmeg yew [网络] 肉豆蔻 - 红豆杉 English yew 英国紫杉 Anglojap yew Pacific yew 短叶紫杉 Prince Albert's yew [网络] 阿尔伯特王子的红豆杉

词源

From Middle English ew, from Old English īw, ēow, [both cognates of Welsh yw (“yews”), Irish eo, Old Irish eó respectively]; although the Old English form was conjectured to be from Proto-West Germanic *īhu, from Proto-Germanic *īhwaz (compare Icelandic ýr), masculine variant of *īwō (compare Dutch ijf, German Eibe), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw-. See also Hittite 𒄑𒂊𒅀𒀭 (eyan, “type of evergreen”), Latgalian īva (“bird cherry”), Lithuanian ievà (“bird cherry”), Russian и́ва (íva, “willow”).

来源：wiktionary