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BOXWOOD
box, boxwood
(noun) evergreen shrubs or small trees
boxwood, Turkish boxwood
(noun) very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
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.
Synonyms
• (Buxus sempervirens): common box, European box
Anagrams
• woodbox
Source: Wiktionary
Box"wood`, n.
Definition: The wood of the box (Buxus).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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