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noun
- The edible, starchy, tuberous root of any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea, usually cultivated in the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
- (italbrac, Southern U.S.) A sweet potato.
- (Scottish) potato, Potato.
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noun
- any of several pungent Eurasian herbs, of the genus Achillea, used sparingly in cooking
| | yew |
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noun
- (countable) A tree or shrub of the genus Taxus, with dark-green flat needle like leaves and seeds bearing red arils.
- (uncountable) The wood of the yew.
- Quotations
- 1786: To prevent a too great consumption of yew, bowyers were directed to make four bows of witch-hazel, ash or elm, to one of yew, and no person under seventeen years of age, unless possessed of moveables worth forty marks, of the son of parents having an estate of ten pounds per annum might shoot in an yew bow, under a penalty of 6s. 8d. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 37.
adjective
- Made from the wood of the yew tree.
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noun
- Alternative spelling of ylang ylang.
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proper noun
- The Yucca mountain.
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