boxwood
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 20
- Words With Friends
- 21
- Letters
- 7
Definition of boxwood
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.
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noun
- (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.
name
- A locality in the Rural City of Benalla and the City of Greater Shepparton, north eastern Victoria, Australia.
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Etymology
From box + wood; box from Latin buxus (“box-tree, object made of boxwood”), of uncertain origin; compare Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos).
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