Boxwood example sentences
box
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boxwood (noun)
- a slow-growing European evergreen shrub or small tree with glossy dark green leaves. It is often grown as a hedge and for topiary.
- the hard, heavy wood of the box tree, formerly widely used for engraving and for musical instruments.
- any of a number of trees that have wood or foliage similar to the box tree.
- several Australian eucalyptus trees (genus Eucalyptus, family Myrtaceae).
- the tropical American Venezuelan box, or West Indian box (Casearia praecox, family Flacourtiaceae), the wood of which has now largely replaced that of the European box.