Resembling or relating to boxwood in texture, appearance, or characteristics.
From Buxus (boxwood genus) plus the suffix -eous, meaning 'made of' or 'having the qualities of.'
This archaic adjective might seem overly specific, but it allowed 17th and 18th-century naturalists to quickly classify objects by their wood density and hardness without lengthy descriptions.
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