yews
Longbow wood sources
Yews are evergreen trees or shrubs with dark green needles and red berries.
The wood is dense and flexible, historically prized for making longbows.
Yews are often planted in churchyards and cemeteries, giving them associations with death and mourning.
Most parts of the tree are poisonous to humans and livestock.
Producing woody cones
- needlesSlender pointed instruments
- denseClosely packed together
- foliagePlant's leafy covering
- hedgeBoundary of planted shrubs
topiary · ornamental · landscaping · garden · shade · slow-growing · bark · trunk
Place for interring remains
- graveyardPlot for interring the dead
- tombstoneMemorial stone at grave
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
headstone · epitaph · grave · mourning · funeral · churchyard · lychgate · sacred
Tall wooden archery weapon
- bowmakingCrafting archery equipment
- bowyerArchery weapon craftsman
- English longbowTall wooden war bow
- staveBarrel's wooden rib
heartwood · sapwood · flexibility · archer · medieval · Agincourt · warfare · quiver
coniferous
Producing woody cones
hedge · topiary · ornamental · landscaping · garden · shade · slow-growing · bark · trunk · branches
cemetery
Place for interring remains
- graveyardPlot for interring the dead
- tombstoneMemorial stone at grave
- burialPlacing deceased underground
memorial · headstone · epitaph · grave · mourning · funeral · churchyard · lychgate · sacred · immortality
longbow
Tall wooden archery weapon
- bowmakingCrafting archery equipment
- bowyerArchery weapon craftsman
- English longbowTall wooden war bow
stave · heartwood · sapwood · flexibility · archer · medieval · Agincourt · warfare · quiver · arrows
ancient
Very old indeed
- old-growthLong-undisturbed forest
- gnarledTwisted and knotty
- twistedWound around itself
hollow · millennia · centuries · veteran · sacred · immortality · timeless · enduring · heritage · mythology
poisonous
Capable of causing death
alkaloids · ingestion · symptoms · livestock · foliage · seeds · aril · berries · dangerous · harmful
- plantstree, plants, leaves, bluebonnet, trees
- plant groupsangiosperms, gymnosperms, monocots, dicots, flowering plants
- spore plantsferns, fern, mosses, liverwort, hornwort
yewshardwoods
Dense deciduous lumber types
flowering trees · angiosperms · cherry trees · magnolias · apple trees