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Definition of Buxus sempervirens
1. Noun. Large slow-growing evergreen shrub or small tree with multiple stems; extensively used for hedges or borders and topiary figures.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buxus Sempervirens
Literary usage of Buxus sempervirens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"... which forms occasionally dense thickets; also buxus sempervirens or the boxwood
tree. ... buxus sempervirens ..."
2. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"On the Parbati, not far from the sacred hot spring of Mani Karan, there is a
considerable supply of box (buxus sempervirens) " Shamshad" of the ..."
3. The plants of the Bible, trees and shrubs by John Hutton Balfour (1857)
"(buxus sempervirens.) " I will set in the desert the fir-tree, and the pine, and
the box together. ... THE box-tree is the buxus sempervirens of botanists. ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"buxus sempervirens (2 to 8 feet). *Abutilon striatum (8 feet). Abelia grandiflora (6
feet). Azalea índica (4 feet)' Hydrangea Hortensia (5 feet). ..."
5. Our woodland trees by Francis George Heath (1878)
"buxus sempervirens. PLATS 5, FlO. 16. rj>j. AMILIAR to everybody in the dwarf
form of the old-fashioned, evergreen, garden 'edgings,' the Box, as a Tree, ..."
6. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"buxus sempervirens, , Species Plantarum. SMITH, English Flora. ... i HE Buxus
sempervirens is a well-known hardy evergreen tree or shrub, which, ..."
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