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Definition of Genus buxus

1. Noun. Type genus of the Buxaceae.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Buxus

Literary usage of Genus buxus

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

1. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"Nées Von Esen- beck, Genera. genus Buxus embraces low evergreen trees or shrubs, with shining coriaceous leaves, and greenish-yellow flowers ; natives of ..."

2. Familiar Trees by George Simonds Boulger (1907)
"The genus Buxus, of which our British species is the best known representative, includes fewer than twenty species of evergreen shrubs, or small trees. ..."

3. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1851)
"As to the non-union of the castor-oil plant with the box, it is a curious fact that the name of the genus Buxus does not occur in any one of the natural ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... genus Buxus, the principal species being the well-known tree or shrub, B. sempervirens, the common box, in general use for borders of garden walks, ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"BOXWOOD, the wood obtained from the genus Buxus, the principal species being the well-known tree or shrub, B. semper- virens, the common box, in general use ..."

6. An Elementary Handbook of Applied Mechanics by William Rossiter (1873)
"... flames: hence its usefulness as fuel in smelting iron in northern Europe, where coal is not so cheap as in England. Box-wood—a tree (of the genus Buxus, ..."

7. Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language: Adapted to the by John Walker (1874)
"The tree or shrub of the genus buxus. Boz'-eo, 114 : <i. Made of box. Box, t. A case; a name originally derived from the Cis slighter make or smaller size ..."

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