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yew

(yo͞o)

1. Any of several poisonous evergreen coniferous trees or shrubs of the genus Taxus, having scarlet cup-shaped arils and flat needles that are dark green above and yellowish below. Yews contain compounds used in medicine and are often grown as ornamentals.

2. The wood of any of these trees, especially the durable, fine-grained wood of the Eurasian and North African species Taxus baccata, used in cabinetmaking and for archery bows.

yew (yōōˑ),

n Latin names:
Taxus brevifolia, Taxus baccata; parts used: bark, branch tips; uses: the deriva-tive taxol is used to treat metastatic cancers (particularly breast and ovarian); yew has traditionally been used for joint complaints, fever; precautions: pregnancy, lactation, children; patients with liver disease, compromised immune systems; those taking antineoplastic medications; may cause low blood pressure, hepatotoxicity, thrombocytopenia, anemia, leukopenia, neutropenia. Toxic, should not be used without supervision. Also called
American yew, California yew, chinwood, globeberry, ground hemlock, Oregon yew, or
western yew.

yew

see taxus.

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Ancient trees like the Ankerwycke yew are not protected in the UK, leaving them vulnerable to damage by agriculture or development.

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President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev awarded Lee Kuan Yew with the order of friendship and medal of 20 years of independence of Kazakhstan.

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PM also expressed sympathy with family members of Lee Kuan Yew on the latter's sudden demise.

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His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai; and His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, also dispatched similar cables of condolences to the Singaporean president on the death of Lee Kuan Yew.

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The ancient yew in the churchyard has been standing since more than 3,000 years before Christ, according to tree ageing experts.

Yew better believe it, our tree is aged 5,000

And it is Lee Kuan Yew who emerged from the episode as the knave and fools of his own mindless vindictiveness, while the real conqueror smiles benignly - unnoted, of course, by the local media.

From a page in diary of Devan Nair, President of Singapore 1999:

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14 KIRKLEES COUNCIL (YEW TREE LANE, HOLMBRIDGE, HOLMFIRTH) (TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC) ORDER 2014 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the Borough of Kirklees by reason of works proposed to be carried out on or near the road has made an Order the effect of which will be that no person shall cause or permit any vehicle to proceed in that length of Yew Tree Lane, Holmbridge from its junction with Stubbin Lane to its junction with Cold Well Lane PROVIDED THAT such prohibition shall not extend to vehicles being used in connection with the works to be carried out on or near the closed length of road or to vehicles requiring access up to the point(s) of the closure.