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box

313 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) box (noun)
  2. 2) box (noun)
  3. 3) box (verb)
  4. 4) box (noun)
  5. 5) box (verb)
  6. 6) box (verb)
  7. Box and Cox (adverb or adjective)
  8. box barberry (noun)
  9. box barrage (noun)
  10. box beam (noun)
  11. box bed (noun)
  12. box bill (noun)
  13. box bolt (noun)
  14. box brier (noun)
  15. box caisson (noun)
  16. box calf (noun)
  17. box camera (noun)
  18. box canyon (noun)
  19. box chisel (noun)
  20. box cloth (noun)
  21. box coat (noun)
  22. box couch (noun)
  23. box coupling (noun)
  24. box crab (noun)
  25. box culvert (noun)
  26. box cutter (noun)
  27. box day (noun)
  28. box defense (noun)
  29. box ditch (noun)
  30. box dolly (noun)

1box

noun \ˈbäks\
plural box or box·es

Definition of BOX

: an evergreen shrub or small tree (genus Buxus of the family Buxaceae, the box family) with opposite entire leaves and capsular fruits; especially : a widely cultivated shrub (B. sempervirens) used for hedges, borders, and topiary figures

Origin of BOX

Middle English, from Old English, from Latin buxus, from Greek pyxos
First Known Use: before 12th century

Other Seed Plant Terms

aubergine, bramble, briar, composite, perpetual, pulse, trefoil

Rhymes with BOX

cox, fox, lox, ox, pax, phlox, pox

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