| 释义 |
ˈboxwood
[f. box n.1 + wood n.]
1. The wood of the box-tree; much used by turners, wood-engravers, and in the manufacture of mathematical and musical instruments.
1652Proc. Parliament No. 131. 2025, 834 Logs of Box wood. 1767Richardson in Phil. Trans. LVIII. 20 Two..of brass, and two of box-wood. 1855Singleton Virgil II. 351 Inlaid in boxwood, or in ebony.
2. The tree or shrub itself.
1768Boswell Corsica i. (ed. 2) 49 Its honey hath always been accounted better, by reason of the boxwood and yew. 1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. II. vii. 197 Fringes of boxwood grew here and there.
3. American boxwood, Cornus florida; a deciduous tree of North America, having very heavy close-grained wood, the bark of which is used as a substitute for Peruvian bark; Jamaica boxwood, Tecoma pentaphylla.
4. attrib.
c1865J. Wylde in Circ. Sc. I. 314/1 Boxwood charcoal answers best. 1880Printing Times 15 May 116/1 One or two remaining Abkhasian boxwood forests. |
