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.
User Defined Definitions
"wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows"
"any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves"