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Yew vs Pine - What's the difference?

yew | pine |

In countable terms the difference between yew and pine

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 pine is any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.

In uncountable terms the difference between yew and pine

is that yew is the wood of the such trees while pine is the wood of this tree.

As an adjective yew

is made from the wood of the yew tree.

As a verb pine is

to languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress; to droop.

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

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    pine

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

  • (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus .
  • * , chapter=1
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess), chapter=3 citation , passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine , while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}
  • (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
  • (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
  • (archaic) A pineapple.
    • Synonyms
    * (tree of genus Pinus) pine tree * (wood) pinewood
    Derived terms
    * bunya pine * hoop pine * Huon pine * jack pine * Norfolk Island pine * pineal * pineapple * * * pinecone, pine cone * * pine needle * pine nut * * * pine tar * pine tree * * stone pine * white pine * Wollemi pine * yellow pine

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) . Cognate to (m). Entered Germanic with Christianity; cognate to (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A painful longing.

    • Verb

    (pin)
  • To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress; to droop.
  • * Tickell
    • The roses wither and the lilies pine .
  • To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
    • Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.
  • * 1855 , John Sullivan Dwight (translator), “Oh Holy Night”, as printed in 1871, Adolphe-Charles Adam (music), “Cantique de Noël”, G. Schirmer (New York), originally by Placide Cappeau de Roquemaure, 1847
    • Long lay the world in sin and error pining / Till He appear’d and the soul felt its worth
  • * {{quote-book, year=1994
    • , author=(Walter Dean Myers) , title=The Glory Field , chapter= , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=_ePdzF_m3V4C&q=%22pined%22 citation , isbn=978054505575 , page=29 , passage=The way the story went was that the man's foot healed up all right but that he just pined away.}}
  • To grieve or mourn for.
    • (Milton)
  • To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
  • * Bishop Hall
    • One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.

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