Stuck on a translation: Тиссы

[William Rivers]

Yew, *taxus* species, тис


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On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Olia Prokopenko <oprokop at temple.edu> wrote:

> I think it is "тисс", not "тисса". Try to google the masculine form.
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> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Andrea Gregovich <agregovich at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Hello Everyone!
>>
>> I'm back to translating the story about the Siberian writer who takes a
>> trip to Oxford, which this list was so helpful with last time I asked.  Now
>> I can't figure out a kind of tree he mentions: "огромные тиссы с
>> подробнейшей, отчетливо прописанной корой."  Usually I track down his
>> unfamiliar flora on the internet through a combination of image searches
>> and broader googling of Latin genus species, which mostly come up easily
>> when I search his original Russian terms, but this one isn't cooperating.
>> There are apparently a lot of people, places and things called "Tissa"
>> around the world.  I do get images of the trees and some Latin names, but
>> there are enough discrepancies and never a positive ID on a good English
>> wiki or science-minded site that I'm unsure what they should be called in
>> English.
>>
>> Are these Oxford trees really just called "Tissa" trees?  Are there any
>> other names for them that I might recognize?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Andrea Gregovich
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