boxwood

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EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

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.

SynonymsEdit

• (Buxus sempervirens): common box, European boxwood

TranslationsEdit

Buxus sempervirens

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

• 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
• 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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