Definition of European box

1. Noun. Large slow-growing evergreen shrub or small tree with multiple stems; extensively used for hedges or borders and topiary figures.

Exact synonyms: Buxus Sempervirens, Common Box
Generic synonyms: Box, Boxwood

Lexicographical Neighbors of European Box

European bean
European beaver
European beavers
European beech
European beggar-ticks
European bird cherry
European bison
European bisons
European bittern
European black alder
European black currant
European black grouse
European blackbird
European blueberry
European bog asphodel
European box (current term)
European bream
European brooklime
European brown bat
European bullhead
European bullheads
European catfish
European chestnut
European corn borer
European country
European cranberry
European cranberry bush
European cranberrybush
European creeper
European cuckoo

Literary usage of European box

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster (1908)
"European box Thorn. South Europe, 1730. This is a spiny, rambling shrub, that may often be seen clambering over some cottage porch, or used as a fence or ..."

2. Zoölogical Science: Or, Nature in Living Forms by Anna Maria (Treadwell) Redfield (1858)
"... is judged of by the numbers of these floating air sacs. The flesh of the European box Tortoise, though not very delicate* is nevertheless eaten. ..."

3. Tariff Schedules: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of by Oscar Wilder Underwood (1913)
"(C) Sample box American safety matches, containing about 45 matches, against 60 of European box, snld at same price. This match is inferior to European ..."

4. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"A distinction is drawn between "Turkey" and " European" Box-wood. The alter is more cui'ly, softer, and paler than the former. ..."

5. Journal of Economic Entomology by Entomological Society of America, American Association of Economic Entomologists (1910)
"This European box leaf mi.l^i- \\as found by Prof. AE Stene in May, 1910, infesting a box hedge, ..."

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