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Buchsbaum — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • box noun A rigid container, typically rectangular, with a lid or flaps, used to hold or transport things.
  • boxwood noun The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.
  • dudgeon noun A feeling of anger or resentment, especially haughty indignation.

Senses

Buchsbaum is used for these senses in English:

  • box tree (botany) Any of several trees, of the genus Buxus, often used as a hedge, for topiary, and as a source of boxwood
  • boxwood (countable, uncountable) The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.
  • boxwood (uncountable) The hard, close-grained wood of this tree, used in delicate woodwork and in making inlays.
  • dudgeon (obsolete) A kind of wood used especially in the handles of knives; the root of the box tree.

box — full definition

  1. noun A rigid container, typically rectangular, with a lid or flaps, used to hold or transport things.
  2. verb To put something into a box or boxes.
  3. verb To fight an opponent using the fists, typically wearing padded gloves, as a sport.

boxwood — full definition

  1. noun The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.
  2. noun The hard, close-grained wood of this tree, used in delicate woodwork and in making inlays.
  3. noun Any tree of genus Buxus.

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