yew

yew
subs.
P. μῖλαξ, ἡ (Plat.).
The word is also found in Eur. Bacch. 703, and Aristophanes Nub. 1007, but apparently with a different meaning.

yew: taxus, f.: y.s are bent into bows, taxi torquentur in arcus, Virg. G. 2, 448. Phr.: a wood of y.s, taxea silva, Stat. S. 5, 5, 29: poison made from y., taxicum venenum, Plin. 16, 10, 20.