yewberry

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

The berry of the yew tree.

"Indeed the form, as well as the foliage of the shrub — it is not worthy of being called a tree — is very like that of a Yew. The fruit, when ripe, is the same colour and size, and has about as much taste as a Yewberry."
"Amongst the herbs to be administered when the charm was sung over him were a yew-berry, lupin, helenium, marsh mallow, dock elder, wormwood and strawberry leaves."

From yew + berry.

yewberries (plural)

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