Irish yew
Americannoun
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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 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 James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
Presently she tore across the lawn to the shrubbery which screened the lawn and flower gardens from the winding carriage drive sunk many feet below, and disappeared in a thicket of arbutus and Irish yew.
From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
The wainscots were of Irish yew, and the ceilings of cypress.
From The Great Book-Collectors by Elton, Charles Isaac
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 Darwin, Charles
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