Crossword-Solution: BOXWOOD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Boxwood | n. | The wood of the box (Buxus). |
We have 6 clues for the answer “BOXWOOD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fine-grain timber | 1 answer |
| Florida wood | 1 answer |
| Material for engraver's blocks | 1 answer |
| hard yellow wood of the box tree, used to make tool handles, etc | 1 answer |
| MARQUETRY timber | 3 answers |
| Ornamental evergreen | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BOXWOOD (5)
The women, on the contrary, wore their hair "a la pompadour;" the coarse kinky locks were sometimes a foot or more above their heads, and trained square or round like a boxwood bush.
Then with a professional air, she closed the dead woman's enormous eyes, put a plate on the bed and poured some holy water into it, dipped the twig of boxwood into it, and kneeling down, she fervently repeated the prayers for the dead, which she knew by heart, as a matter of business.
They were made out of boxwood hedges and seemed to be guarding the grounds with a sort of green ferocity.
But he took her hand, and they came by sunny alleys of boxwood to a great plane tree, bearing at wondrous height a mighty wealth of branches.
THE nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark’s is a clarion-call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him best of all.
Quotes with BOXWOOD (2)
When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their …
When I was 4 years old, I woke up in the middle of the night and told my parents there was a witch crying outside in the boxwood bushes. I didn't know who she was or why she was crying, but I was terribly upset.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1975–2011).