turkish boxwood

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymsboxwood

   Broaderwood

Questions about turkish boxwood

What does turkish boxwood mean?

turkish boxwood means "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".

What is another word for turkish boxwood?

Close synonyms include boxwood. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is turkish boxwood a common word?

turkish boxwood is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.