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boxwood

Noun

box=wood

WORDNET DICTIONARY

boxwood(n = noun.plant) turkish boxwood - 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; Array

is a kind of wood

is a member of buxus, genus buxus

has particulars: buxus sempervirens, common box, european box

is a kind of bush, shrub

boxwood, n.

The wood of the box (Buxus). [1913 Webster]

boxwood, n.
1 the wood of the box used esp. by engravers for the fineness of its grain and for its hardness.
2 = BOX(3) 1.

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