yewberry

plural yewberries

1. The berry of the yew tree.

   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.

   1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 16

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   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.

   1895, The Boy's Own Annual, volume 18, page 587