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Used in delicate woodwork musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks
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boxwood
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boxwood \Box"wood`\, n. The wood of the box ( Buxus ).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Boxwood , also known as the Thomas J.B. Turner House , is an antebellum plantation house in southwestern Rutherford County, Tennessee , near Murfreesboro in the historic Salem community. The house was built by Thomas J. B. Turner and his wife, Sarah Jetton ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box especially the common box; used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks [syn: Turkish boxwood ] evergreen shrubs or small trees [syn: box ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable uncountable English) The box tree, (taxlink Buxus sempervirens species noshow=1). 2 (context uncountable English) The hard, close-grained wood of this tree, used in delicate woodwork and in making inlays 3 (context countable uncountable ...
Usage examples of boxwood.
The slow bending of the valve from the weight of particles of glass and even of boxwood, though largely supported by the water, is, I suppose, analogous to the slow bending of colloid substances.
Beyond the green boxwood borders, Thorbardin had a strange and brooding air.
Tanis looked out beyond the fragrant boxwood hedges to the street outside.
The cloying scent of boxwood and moldy clothing made her queasy and she moaned, slung an arm across her eyes to shield the sun, felt the ache spread to every conceivable fiber of her body.
She felt the boxwood grow thorns as if they sprouted from her own skin.
Without pausing he yanked her after him as he plunged into the narrow entrance of the dense, boxwood maze.
Steve Waverly had followed them through the boxwood entrance, and there was no reason to think he had turned around and retreated.
The boxwood hedges and sweeping fir boughs were frosted with white, glittering with faint crystalline sparkles.
She need not traverse the boxwood alley, she could go around, past the garage and the toolshed.
Jordan lived in one of them, and it was clear, from the fresh yellow paint and the neatly trimmed boxwood, that he was doing well.
By an avenue of boxwood and yoke-elm he entered into an open glade, in the middle of which there was a circle where the intended statue of Venus was never placed.
Sheila bent down, moving a few branches of the boxwood in order to see the bird huddled at the base of the shrub.
The path was shaded even more than the tall boxwoods explained, and the light had a bluish cast.
Some were human, but another cleaned skull lying against the boxwoods showed horn cores over the eyesockets.
Ilna walked between the boxwoods, feeling the path spring comfortably beneath her feet.