boxwood

English

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Etymology

From box +‎ wood; box from Latin buxus (“box-tree, object made of boxwood”), from Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos, “box tree, boxwood”).

Noun

boxwood (countable and uncountable, plural boxwoods)

1. (countable, uncountable) The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.
2. (uncountable) The hard, close-grained wood of this tree, used in delicate woodwork and in making inlays.
3. (countable, uncountable) Any tree of genus Buxus.

Synonyms

• (Buxus sempervirens): common box, European box

Derived terms

• Cape boxwood
• Knysna boxwood
• Oregon boxwood

 

Translations

Buxus sempervirens

• Basque: ezpel
• Catalan: boix (ca) m
• Danish: buksbom c
• Dutch: buxus (nl), buksboom (nl)
• Estonian: pukspuu
• Finnish: isopuksipuu
• French: buis (fr) m
• Galician: buxo (gl) m
• Georgian: ბზა (ka) (bza)
• German: Buchsbaum (de) m, Buchs (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: πύξος f (púxos)

• Hebrew: אַשּׁוּר (he) m (ashúr)
• Hungarian: bukszus (hu), puszpáng (hu)
• Macedonian: шимшир m (šimšir)
• Manx: foiee kishtey m
• Middle English: box
• Persian: شمشاد (fa) (šemšâd)
• Polish: bukszpan (pl) m
• Portuguese: buxo (pt) m, buxinho m, buxo anão m
• Punjabi: ਚਿਕੜੀ f (cikṛī)
• Russian: самши́т (ru) m (samšít), букс (ru) m (buks)
• Spanish: boj (es) m
• Swedish: buxbom (sv) c
• Tagalog: bo
• Turkish: şimşir (tr)
• Ukrainian: самши́т m (samšýt), букс m (buks), букшпан m (bukšpan), бушпан m (bušpan)

the hard, close-grained wood of this tree

• Catalan: boix (ca) m
• Dutch: buxushout, palmhout
• Estonian: pukspuupuit
• Finnish: puksipuu (fi)
• Galician: buxo (gl) m
• German: Buchsbaumholz n
• Hungarian: bukszus (hu), puszpáng (hu)
• Irish: bosca m
• Latin: buxum n
• Macedonian: шимшир m (šimšir)
• Manx: foiee kishtey m
• Middle English: box
• Polish: bukszpan (pl) m
• Spanish: boj (es) m
• Swedish: buxbom (sv) c

any tree of genus Buxus

• Catalan: boix (ca) m
• Hungarian: bukszus (hu), puszpáng (hu)
• Latin: buxus f
• Persian: شمشاد (fa) (šemšâd)
• Polish: bukszpan (pl) m

Anagrams

• woodbox