Stuck on a translation: Тиссы

[Irina Servais]

I believe the tree is called Tiss or Tis (masculine). it`s a type of fur tree with apparently poisonous red berries.

Irina



On Saturday, February 8, 2014 4:07 PM, William Rivers <wrivers at LANGUAGEPOLICY.ORG> wrote:
 
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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>>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.
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>>Are these Oxford trees really just called "Tissa" trees?  Are there any other names for them that I might recognize?  
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>>Thanks!
>>Andrea Gregovich
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