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‖ ˈtaxus Obs.
Mediæval Latin name of the badger: formerly sometimes used in English.
1535Coverdale Ezek. xvi. 10, I made the shues of Taxus lether. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 104 b, Of Taxus or the Badger. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades iii. v. (1592) 340 Three couerings more, the vppermost whereof was of Taxus leather, wel able in rain to keep water out. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Taxus, in zoology, the name of the badger. |