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ˈbox-tree
[OE. boxtreow, f. box n.1 + treow tree.]
a. The Box, Buxus sempervirens and other species; = box n.1 1.
c1000ælfric Gram. vii. 20 Hæc buxus, þis boxtreow. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 444 Lik was he to byholde The box-tree, or the asschen deed and colde. c1440Promp. Parv. 46 Box tre, buxus. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. ii. v. 18 Get ye all three into the box tree. 1852McCulloch Dict. Comm. s.v. Boxwood, In 1815, the box trees cut down on Box-hill..produced upwards of 10,000l.
b. Applied to many Australasian species of Eucalyptus. Cf. box n.1 3 c.
1827Hellyer in Bischoff Van Diemen's Land (1832) 168, I found the stump of a withered box tree. 1849C. Sturt Narr. Exped. Central Australia I. 116 The flats of the Darling..are..lightly wooded, having low and useless box-trees (the Gobero of Sir Thomas Mitchell), growing on them. a1882Kendall Poems (1886) 19 Keen, fitful gusts,..Fleet down by whistling box-tree butt. 1940A. W. Upfield Bushranger of Skies xx. 193 I've put in half a handful of box-tree seeds. They'll act like a double dose of painkiller. |