BOXWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boxwood mean? 

• BOXWOOD (noun)
  The noun BOXWOOD has 2 senses:

1. 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

2. evergreen shrubs or small trees

  Familiarity information: BOXWOOD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOXWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

boxwood; Turkish boxwood

Hypernyms ("boxwood" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("boxwood" is a substance of...):

box; boxwood (evergreen shrubs or small trees)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Evergreen shrubs or small trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

box; boxwood

Hypernyms ("boxwood" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Meronyms (substance of "boxwood"):

boxwood; 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "boxwood"):

Buxus sempervirens; common box; European box (large slow-growing evergreen shrub or small tree with multiple stems; extensively used for hedges or borders and topiary figures)

Holonyms ("boxwood" is a member of...):

Buxus; genus Buxus (type genus of the Buxaceae)