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Taxus brevifolia

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Taxus brevifolia [‚tak·səs ‚brev·i′fō·lē·ə]
(botany)
The Pacific yew tree, from which the anticancer compound taxol is derived.


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Historically developed by the National Cancer Institute and Hauser Chemical Company, Taxol(R) was first isolated and manufactured from the bark of the slow-growing Pacific yew, Taxus brevifolia.
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