boxwood
Plural: boxwoods
Noun
- An evergreen shrub or small tree with small, glossy leaves.
- 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
- evergreen shrubs or small trees
- The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.
- The hard, close-grained wood of this tree, used in delicate woodwork and in making inlays.
- Any tree of genus Buxus.
Examples
- The word BOXWOOD sprouted points on the Words With Friends board, verdant and valuable.
Origin / Etymology
From box + wood; box from Latin buxus (“box-tree, object made of boxwood”), of uncertain origin; compare Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos).
Synonyms
box, Turkish boxwood, European box, common box
Scrabble Score: 20
boxwood: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordboxwood: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
boxwood: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 21
boxwood: valid Words With Friends Word