Taxus, taxi, f. g. Arbor. A tree like sirre, bearing berries that are poison. Also the tree called Yewe.Cyrnæa taxus.Virg. Funesta taxus. Stat.Metucnda succo taxus.Stat. Nocentes taxi. Virg.Pestiferæ taxi. Claud.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
taxus, i, f., a yew, yew-tree.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.—II.Poet., transf., a javelin, made of the wood of the yew-tree, Sil. 13, 210.