Crossword-Solution: TAXUS 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Corilla, dear, beautiful woman, it costs me much pains and many efforts to conquer you; will your possession repay me?” The cardinal patiently waited in the shadow of a taxus-bush until the street become for a moment empty and solitary.

The rich and luxuriant carpets of the many varieties of box, thuya, taxus, and dwarf pine, in dark, somber greens and many lighter color variations, are superb.

The vegetable which produced the Balm of Gilead has not been found in modern times, although the localities in which it anciently grew have been carefully explored.] It is, however, said that the yew tree, Taxus baccata, formerly very common in England, Germany, and--as we are authorized to infer from Theophrastus--in Greece, has almost wholly disappeared from the latter country, and seems to be dying out in Germany.

Falconer's skilled eye has recognised the remains of almost every quadruped which he had elsewhere found fossil in British caves: in some places the Elephas primigenius, accompanied by its usual companion, the Rhinoceros tichorhinus, in others Elephas antiquus, associated with Rhinoceros hemitoechus, Falconer; the extinct animals being often embedded, as in the Belgian caves, in the same matrix with species now living in Europe, such as the common badger (Meles taxus), the common wolf, and the fox.

The weeping blue juniper (_Juniperus recurva,_ “Deschoo”), and the arboreous black one (called “Tchokpo”)[162] yield beautiful wood, like that of the pencil cedar,[163] but are comparatively scarce, as is the yew (_Taxus baccata,_ “Tingschi”), whose timber is red.