boxwood
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks
Types & categories
- wood hypernym
Parts & wholes
- boxwood substance holonym
Sense 2 noun
evergreen shrubs or small trees
Types & categories
- bush hypernym
- common box hyponym
Parts & wholes
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | substance holonym | Parts & wholes | boxwood |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | wood |
| 2 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Buxus |
| 2 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | boxwood |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | bush |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | common box |