boxwood
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EnglishEdit
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)
- (countable, uncountable) The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.
- (uncountable) The hard, close-grained wood of this tree, used in delicate woodwork and in making inlays
- (countable, uncountable) Any tree of genus Buxus.
SynonymsEdit
- (Buxus sempervirens): common box, European boxwood
TranslationsEdit
Buxus sempervirens
the hard, close-grained wood of this tree
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