Irish yew

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noun

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

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Irish yew

San Francisco businessmen traditionally decorate downtown Union Square with 16 tall Irish yew trees, each festooned with hundreds of colored lights.

From Time Magazine Archive

The wainscots were of Irish yew, and the ceilings of cypress.

From The Great Book-Collectors by Charles Isaac Elton

The one feature that struck him with a sense of incongruity was a small Irish yew, thin and black, which stood out like an outpost of the shrubbery, through which the maze was approached.

From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

A seedling from the fastigiate or upright Irish yew is described as differing greatly from the parent-form "by the exaggeration of the fastigiate habit of its branches."

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

A seedling from the fastigate or upright Irish yew is described as differing greatly from the parent-form "by the exaggeration of the fastigate habit of its branches."

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin

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