The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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A smaller but not inconsiderable number, including the sequoias and certain yews, oaks, cypresses, and junipers, survive for thousands.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
So we made our wet way through the circular maze of yews and into the stunning castle, which elegantly bridges the Cher River.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2016
For a project at a London townhouse, yews clipped into massive rectangles are lined up colonnade-style, framing an impeccable tapis vert that is reached by ascending a broad flight of limestone steps.
From Architectural Digest ● May 20, 2015
Conifers include familiar evergreen trees such as pines, spruces, firs, cedars, sequoias, and yews.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The sun was out and the sky too bright a blue to look at as the snow melted off the yews and came clumping down.
From "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt
