Lewis & Short

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taxa, ae, f., a kind of laurel, Plin. 15, 30, 39, § 130.

taxus, i, f., a yew, yew-tree.

  1. I. Lit., Plin. 16, 10, 20, § 50; Caes. B. G. 6, 31; Verg. E. 9, 30; id. G. 2, 113 al.
    Considered, on account of its poisonous berries, as a tree of the infernal regions, Ov. M. 4, 432; Sil. 13, 596; Luc. 3, 419; 6, 645 al.
  2. II. Poet., transf., a javelin, made of the wood of the yew-tree, Sil. 13, 210.