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yewberry

yewberry noun: the berry of the yew tree.

Noun

yewberry (plural yewberries)

  1. The berry of the yew tree.
    • Indeed the form, as well as the foliage of the shrub — it is not worthy of being called a tree — is very like that of a Yew. The fruit, when ripe, is the same colour and size, and has about as much taste as a Yewberry.1895, The Boy's Own Annual, volume 18, page 587
    • Amongst the herbs to be administered when the charm was sung over him were a yew-berry, lupin, helenium, marsh mallow, dock elder, wormwood and strawberry leaves.1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 16

Forms of yewberry

pluralyewberries

Origin of yewberry

From yew + berry.

Questions about yewberry

What does yewberry mean?
Yewberry means the berry of the yew tree.
What part of speech is yewberry?
Yewberry is a noun.
What is the plural of yewberry?
The plural of yewberry is yewberries.

Words near yewberry in the dictionary

  1. Yevpatoria
  2. yew
  3. yew pine
  4. yew pines
  5. yewberries
  6. yewberry
  7. Yewdale
  8. yewei
  9. yewen
  10. yewie
  11. yewies

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