boxwood

From box +‎ wood; box from Latin buxus (“box-tree, object made of boxwood”), from Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos, “box tree, boxwood”).

boxwood (countable and uncountable, plural boxwoods)

1. (countable, uncountable) The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.
2. (uncountable) The hard, close-grained wood of this tree, used in delicate woodwork and in making inlays.
3. (countable, uncountable) Any tree of genus Buxus.

• (Buxus sempervirens): common box, European box

• woodbox