Words ending with yew

3 letter words ending with yew

• yew — any of several evergreen, coniferous trees and shrubs of the genera Taxus and Torreya, constituting the family Taxaceae, of the Old World, North America, and Japan, having needlelike or scalelike foliage and seeds enclosed in a fleshy aril.
• hicks yew — a hybrid yew, Taxus media hicksii, having a columnar manner of growth.
• irish yew — a variety of yew, Taxus baccata stricta, of Eurasia and northern Africa, having upright branches and dark green foliage with color variations.
• japanese yew — a yew, Taxus cuspidata, of Japan, grown as an ornamental.
• lee kuan yew — 1923–2015, Singaporean statesman; prime minister of Singapore 1959–90, during which period his party's authoritarian rule was criticized but the country's economy progressed rapidly