chestnut tree vs yew

chestnut tree

• A tree that bears chestnuts; a tree of the genus Castanea 

yew

• The wood of the such trees. 

• A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia. 

• Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus. 

• in family Cephalotaxaceae 

• A bow for archery, made of yew wood. 

• in family Podocarpaceae 

• Made from the wood of the yew tree.