Irish yew

noun

1. a variety of yew, Taxus baccata stricta, of Eurasia and northern Africa, having upright branches and dark green foliage with color variations.

Example Sentences

The proposal would replace a Deodar Cedar tree that is obscuring the sculpture with three eight- to 10-foot-tall Irish yew trees.

From Washington Post

It is not only clipped trees that are ugly, but even trees like the Irish Yew, Welling60tonia, and some Arbor-vit�, which frequently assume shapes like extinguishers or the forms of clipped trees.

From Project Gutenberg

Drooping, mournful trees seemed particularly to appeal to him, for the very rare weeping hemlock, like a black fountain, was there as well as the weeping larch, with its small cones; and a veritable army of white pines, Norway spruces, balsam firs, and the red cedar that in its blackish stateliness is so like the Irish yew.

From Project Gutenberg

Plates 73, 74, 76;Irish Yew, 79 THE END.

From Project Gutenberg

Its leaves are like those of the Black Poplar, but its branches, instead of spreading, all grow straight upwards, so that the fastigiate or spire shape of the tree is produced—a shape only found otherwise among coniferous trees, particularly in the Cypress, the Juniper and the Irish Yew.

From Project Gutenberg