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

Translations

Buxus sempervirens

• 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)

• Manx: foiee kishtey m
• Polish: bukszpan (pl) m
• Portuguese: buxo (pt) m, buxinho m, buxo anão m
• Russian: самши́т (ru) m (samšít), букс (ru) m (buks)
• Spanish: boj (es) m
• Swedish: buxbom (sv) c
• Tagalog: bo
• Turkish: şimşir (tr)

the hard, close-grained wood of this tree

• Catalan: boix (ca) m
• Dutch: buxushout, palmhout
• Estonian: pukspuupuit
• Finnish: puksipuu (fi)
• German: Buchsbaumholz n

• Irish: bosca m
• Manx: foiee kishtey m
• Polish: bukszpan (pl) m
• Spanish: boj (es) m

any tree of genus Buxus

• Catalan: boix (ca) m

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