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Definition of "boxwood" [box•wood]

  • The box plant. (noun)
  • The wood of the box plant. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "boxwood" in a sentence
  • "This tiny boxwood is only about 6 inches tall late in the year, it’s often gray and bleak outside — there’s nothing colorful for the eye to fall on."
  • "The undulating holloway, which has itself sunk through the steady erosion of cartwheels and hooves up to fifteen feet beneath the hillside, translates you from the present into an earlier era when John Nash carved out his woodcuts in English boxwood at the kitchen table under a single lamp-bulb and cultivated the half-wild garden."
  • "See Amelanchier for substitutes for boxwood, which is costly."