Synonyms of the word boxwood


BOXWOODBOX - BUSH - SHRUB - WOOD

boxwood

  • n. (countable, uncountable) The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.
  • n. (uncountable) The hard, close-grained wood of this tree, used in delicate woodwork and in making inlays.
  • n. (countable, uncountable) Any tree of genus Buxus.

box

  • n. A cuboid space; a container, usually with a hinged lid.
  • n. As much as fills a such a container.
  • n. A compartment of a storage furniture, or of a part of such a furniture, such as of a drawer, shelving,…
  • n. A compartment to sit in at a theater, courtroom, or auditorium.
  • n. A small rectangular shelter like a booth.
  • n. A rectangle.
  • n. An input field on an interactive electronic display.
  • n. A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements.
  • n. A trap or predicament.
  • n. The driver's seat on a coach.
  • n. (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn by a batsman or close fielder inside the underpants.
  • n. (engineering) A cylindrical casing around for example a bearing or gland.
  • n. (soccer) The penalty area.
  • n. (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
  • n. (slang, with the) Television.
  • n. (slang, vulgar) The vagina.
  • n. (euphemistic) Coffin.
  • n. (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike…
  • n. Horse box.
  • n. (baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.
  • n. A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.
  • n. (dated) A small country house.
  • n. (informal) box lacrosse.
  • n. (genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.
  • v. (transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in boxes.
  • v. (transitive, usually with 'in') To hem in.
  • v. (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.
  • v. (transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar color to ensure that the color is identical.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish (e.g. a wheel) with boxes.
  • v. (architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form.
  • v. (transitive) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
  • n. Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus Buxus.
  • n. Boxwood: the wood from a box tree.
  • n. (Australia) Species of Lophostemon.
  • n. (slang) A musical instrument, especially/usually one made from boxwood.
  • n. A blow with the fist.
  • v. (transitive) To strike with fists; to punch.
  • v. (transitive) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
  • v. (intransitive) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.

bush

  • n. (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually…
  • n. (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's; loosely, a woman's vulva.
  • n. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
  • n. A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a…
  • n. (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
  • v. (intransitive) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
  • v. To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
  • v. To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
  • n. (archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.
  • n. (often with "the") Rural areas, typically remote, wooded, undeveloped and uncultivated.
  • n. (Canada) A woodlot or bluff on a farm.
  • adv. (Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.
  • adj. (colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
  • n. (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior".
  • n. A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal (also bushing).
  • n. A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which…
  • n. A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish with a bush or lining.

shrub

  • n. A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
  • v. (obsolete) To lop; to prune.
  • v. (transitive, Kenyan English) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or…
  • n. A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small…

wood

  • n. (uncountable) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a…
  • n. (countable) The wood of a particular species of tree.
  • n. (countable) A forested or wooded area.
  • n. Firewood.
  • n. (countable, golf) A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
  • n. (music) A woodwind instrument.
  • n. (uncountable, slang) An erection of the penis.
  • n. (chess, uncountable, slang) Chess pieces.
  • v. (transitive) To cover or plant with trees.
  • v. (transitive) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
  • v. To take or get a supply of wood.
  • adj. (obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.
  • n. (US, sometimes offensive, chiefly prison slang, of a person) A peckerwood.

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