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Plural of yew

regular plural

The plural of yew is yews.

Forms of yew

Singularyew /juː/
Pluralyews
Countablecountable and uncountable

Yews in a sentence

  • Search among the ivies and yews of the shady little churchyard will discover a number of flat, weatherworn slabs of stone, but the verses and the signatures have vanished.1909, Eric Parker, chapter XXIII, in Highways and Byways in Surrey. From the entry epitaph

Meaning of yew

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus.
  3. noun In family Podocarpaceae.

Full definition of yew

Questions about the plural of yew

What is the plural of yew?
The plural of yew is yews.
Is yew countable?
Yew is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yew (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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