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box(1) (iou)



box noun1. OE.
[Latin buxus from Greek puxos.]
More fully box tree. A small evergreen tree or shrub of the genus Buxus (family Buxaceae); esp. Buxus sempervirens, with dark leathery leaves, often planted in garden borders. OE.
b. Any of various Australasian eucalypts and other trees with wood like that of Buxus. E19.
grey box, white box, etc.
The hard, heavy, close-grained wood of the box, or of certain other trees, much used by turners and engravers. LME.
Comb.: box elder a pinnate-leaved N. American elder, Acer negundo; box-gum = sense 1b above; box-thorn a shrub of the genus Lycium, of the nightshade family, bearing red berries, some species of which are used for hedging; esp. L. barbarum, naturalized in Britain; box tree: see sense 1 above; boxwood = sense 2 above; also, the tree itself.
boxen adjective (arch.) of or pertaining to box; made of or like boxwood: M16.