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Yew vs Jew - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between yew and jew

is that yew is a species of coniferous tree, species: 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 while Jew is an adherent of Judaism.

As an adjective yew

is made from the wood of the yew tree.

As a verb Jew is

alternative case form of jew.

yew

English

(wikipedia yew) (Taxus)

Noun

  • (countable) A species of coniferous tree, , 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.
  • (countable, by extension) Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus .
  • Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus
  • # in family
  • # in family
  • (uncountable) The wood of the such trees.
  • *
  • A bow for archery, made of yew wood.

    • Synonyms

    * , (common yew)

    Derived terms

    * (European yew), (common yew) (Taxus baccata ) * (Pacific yew), (western yew) () * (Canadian yew) () * (Chinese yew) () * Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata ) * (Florida yew) () * (Mexican yew) () * (Sumatran yew) () * (Himalayan yew) () * (white-berry yew) () * (New Caledonian yew), (southern yew) () * (catkin yew) ( sp.) * (plum yew) (also plum-yew) ( sp.) * (vern, Prince Albert's yew) () * self-yew

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Made from the wood of the yew tree.

    • References

    See also

    * (Taxus baccata)

    Anagrams

    * *

    jew

    English

    (Jew)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An adherent of Judaism.
    • I don't have a religion, but my sister is a Jew and my brother is a Wiccan.
  • A person who claims a cultural or ancestral connection to the Jewish people (see secular Jew).
  • * William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice (Act III, scene I)
    • Hath not a Jew' eyes? Hath not a ' Jew hands, organs
    dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with
    the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
    to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means,
    warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer
    as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
    If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us,
    do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

    Usage notes

    * The Jewish community overall has a common religion, culture, identity, and ethnicity, but individual Jews do not necessarily share all of these; therefore, a person might be a Jew by one standpoint but not by another. * Additionally, there are some religious groups that identify themselves as part of Judaism, but that other Jewish groups might not; hence, use of the term Jew often depends on the speaker's opinions. * The noun Jew'' is not offensive, and the overwhelming majority of English-speaking Jews use the noun ''Jew to identify themselves. * That said, it has become offensive for historical reasons to use the word Jew'' attributively, in modifying another noun (as in "Jew lawyer"); the adjective ''Jewish is preferred for this purpose. * Additionally, the derived verbs jew'' and ''jew down are considered offensive, as they reflect stereotypes considered offensive.

    Hypernyms

    * religionist, Abrahamist. theist, creationist

    Coordinate terms

    *

    Synonyms

    * Jewess (qualifier) * Hebrew (dated) * Yahudi (quranic) * Israelite (dated) * kike (derogatory) * Moses (qualifier) * yid (derogatory) * heeb (derogatory) * sheeny (derogatory) * hymie (derogatory)

    Hyponyms

    *halakhist

    Derived terms

    * Wandering Jew * Jewhatred * Jewsrael *ex-Jew

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (offensive) (jew)