boxwood

English

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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).

Noun

boxwood (countable and uncountable, plural boxwoods)

1. (countable, uncountable) The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.
2. (uncountable) The hard, close-grained wood of this tree, used in delicate woodwork and in making inlays.
3. (countable, uncountable) Any tree of genus Buxus.

Synonyms

• (Buxus sempervirens): common box, European box

Derived terms

• Cape boxwood
• Knysna boxwood
• Oregon boxwood

 

Translations

Buxus sempervirens

• Basque: ezpel
• Catalan: boix (ca) m
• Danish: buksbom c
• Dutch: buxus (nl), buksboom (nl)
• Estonian: pukspuu
• Finnish: isopuksipuu
• French: buis (fr) m
• Galician: buxo (gl) m
• Georgian: ბზა (ka) (bza)
• German: Buchsbaum (de) m, Buchs (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: πύξος f (púxos)

• Hebrew: אַשּׁוּר (he) m (ashúr)
• Hungarian: bukszus (hu), puszpáng (hu)
• Macedonian: шимшир m (šimšir)
• Manx: foiee kishtey m
• Middle English: box
• Persian: شمشاد (fa) (šemšâd)
• Polish: bukszpan (pl) m
• Portuguese: buxo (pt) m, buxinho m, buxo anão m
• Punjabi: ਚਿਕੜੀ f (cikṛī)
• Russian: самши́т (ru) m (samšít), букс (ru) m (buks)
• Spanish: boj (es) m
• Swedish: buxbom (sv) c
• Tagalog: bo
• Turkish: şimşir (tr)
• Ukrainian: самши́т m (samšýt), букс m (buks), букшпан m (bukšpan), бушпан m (bušpan)

the hard, close-grained wood of this tree

• Catalan: boix (ca) m
• Dutch: buxushout, palmhout
• Estonian: pukspuupuit
• Finnish: puksipuu (fi)
• Galician: buxo (gl) m
• German: Buchsbaumholz n
• Hungarian: bukszus (hu), puszpáng (hu)
• Irish: bosca m
• Latin: buxum n
• Macedonian: шимшир m (šimšir)
• Manx: foiee kishtey m
• Middle English: box
• Polish: bukszpan (pl) m
• Spanish: boj (es) m
• Swedish: buxbom (sv) c

any tree of genus Buxus

• Catalan: boix (ca) m
• Hungarian: bukszus (hu), puszpáng (hu)
• Latin: buxus f
• Persian: شمشاد (fa) (šemšâd)
• Polish: bukszpan (pl) m

Anagrams

• woodbox