different between yew vs cedar

English

Wikispecies

Etymology 1

From Middle English ew, from Old English ?w, ?ow, from Proto-Germanic *?waz, *?hwaz (compare Icelandic ýr), masculine variant of *?w? (compare Dutch ijf, German Eibe), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyHweh?.

See also Hittite [script needed] (eja, “type of evergreen”), Welsh yw (“yews”), Irish eo [both cognates of Old English ?w, Old English ?ow]; and Latgalian ?va (“bird cherry”), Lithuanian ievà (“bird cherry”), Russian ???? (íva, “willow”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: yo?o, IPA^(key): /ju?/, /j???/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophones: ewe, u, you, hew (in h-dropping dialects), hue (in h-dropping dialects)

Noun

yew (countable and uncountable, plural yews)

1. (countable) A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.

   Synonyms: English yew, European yew, common yew

2. (countable, by extension) Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus.
3. Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus
   1. in family Podocarpaceae
   2. in family Cephalotaxaceae
4. (uncountable) The wood of the such trees.
5. A bow for archery, made of yew wood.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

yew (not comparable)

1. Made from the wood of the yew tree.

   Synonym: yewen

Translations

See also

• Taxus baccata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Pronoun

yew

1. Eye dialect spelling of you.

References

Anagrams

• Wey, Wye, wey, wye

Middle English

Pronoun

yew

1. Alternative form of yow

Noone

Noun

yew (plural yêw)

1. house

References

• R. Blench, Beboid Comparative

Zazaki

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Haywas.

Numeral

yew

1. one

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English cedre, from Old French cedre, from Latin cedrus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kédros).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?si?.d?/
• (US) enPR: s??d?r, IPA^(key): /?si.d?/

Noun

cedar (countable and uncountable, plural cedars)

2. (countable) A coniferous tree of the genus Cedrus in the family Pinaceae.
3. (countable) A coniferous tree of the family Cupressaceae, especially of the genera Juniperus, Cupressus, Calocedrus, or Thuja.

   • There had been dry seasons, accumulations of dust, wind-blown seeds, and cedars rose wonderfully out of solid rock.

4. (countable) A flowering tree of the family Meliaceae, especially of the genera Cedrela or Toona.
5. (uncountable) The aromatic wood from a Cedrus tree, or from any of several unrelated trees.

Derived terms

Related terms

• cedr-
• Cedrela
• cedrelaceous
• cedrelate
• cedrine

Translations

Anagrams

• Cerda, Cerdà, Dacre, acred, arced, cader, cadre, cared, decar, e-card, ecard, raced

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto cedi, English cede, French céder, Italian cedere, Spanish ceder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?se?dar/

Verb

cedar (present tense cedas, past tense cedis, future tense cedos, imperative cedez, conditional cedus)

1. (transitive) to cede

Conjugation

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ke?.dar/, [?ke?d?är]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??e.dar/, [?t????d??r]

Verb

c?dar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of c?d?
2. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of c?d?

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

c?dar m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. cedar (tree)

Declension

Derived terms

• c?drovina