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boxwood

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for boxwood.

Editorial note

For what it's worth, wine enthusiasts refer to this cat pee smell as 'boxwood' and pay extra for it.

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Quick take

A locality in the Rural City of Benalla and the City of Greater Shepparton, north eastern Victoria, Australia.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of boxwood gathered in one view.

noun

A locality in the Rural City of Benalla and the City of Greater Shepparton, north eastern Victoria, Australia.

noun

(countable, uncountable) The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.

noun

(countable, uncountable) Any tree of genus Buxus.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for boxwood.

noun

A locality in the Rural City of Benalla and the City of Greater Shepparton, north eastern Victoria, Australia.

noun

(countable, uncountable) The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.

noun

(countable, uncountable) Any tree of genus Buxus.

noun

(uncountable) The hard, close-grained wood of this tree, used in delicate woodwork and in making inlays.

Example sentences

1

For what it's worth, wine enthusiasts refer to this cat pee smell as 'boxwood' and pay extra for it.

2

Some of the parts look like they were composed of boxwood or balsa, and even cardboard.

3

My all time favourite is the most traditional of all: boxwood.

4

If you see a fine wine with 'hint of boxwood', run.

5

And boy oh boy can they ravage boxwood hedges.

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But mostly as soon as you pick up a chisel or piece of boxwood to smooth clay or whatever it might be to initiate work, the rest of the world pretty much goes away.

7

So if you generated, say, a picture that ended up including a bush, you could ask it to change it from a boxwood to a rose bush, and it could do it.

8

That experience motivated me to kill the ornamental boxwood that was in my backyard and start planting native plants which can support native birds, pollinators and small mammals and in turn provide a food supply all the way up the food chain to that coyote.

Quote examples

1

If anyone ever asks me what to name their cat, I am now forevermore going to recommend the name "boxwood".

2

Not Boxwood Cr., not Boxwood Crescent, not “Boxwood Cres.” Of course all of those will work for mail, but if I want to transfer the deed, or do anything of legal relevance, the government needs the address to be exactly like the first one.

3

The functions in Boxwood are so close already to the necessary shape for a JSX function (it's just `jsx(tagNameOrComponentFunction, properties, children)`) there's not a lot you actually need to do to get nearly "free" JSX support even if you didn't want to put the work into a.d.ts file to get nice Types back out and just did `export type JSX.

Proper noun examples

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Boxwood was for centuries the choice of wind instrument makers because of its stability and hardness, which made it possible to create thinner more practical instruments (clarinets, flute etc).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use boxwood in a sentence?

For what it's worth, wine enthusiasts refer to this cat pee smell as 'boxwood' and pay extra for it.

What does boxwood mean?

A locality in the Rural City of Benalla and the City of Greater Shepparton, north eastern Victoria, Australia.

What part of speech is boxwood?

boxwood is commonly used as noun.