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单词 maracaibo boxwood
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Maracaibo boxwood
Maracaibo boxwood n. a tropical American tree, Casearia praecox (family Flacourtiaceae); the timber of this tree, which resembles European boxwood and is frequently used in place of it.
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1911 in Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) (1914) 215 The West Indian boxwood is a product of the district of Maracaibo only.]
1914 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) 215 The abundant supply of flowering and leafy twigs has enabled the Maracaibo boxwood tree to be identified as Casearia praecox.
1956 Handbk. Hardwoods (Forest Products Res. Lab.) 57 (note) The trade name boxwood..has been extended to cover..a number of botanically unrelated species with wood resembling true boxwood in general character. The most important of these are ‘Knysna boxwood’.., ‘Maracaibo boxwood’ (Gossypiospermum praecox) and ‘San Domingo boxwood’.
1987 D. J. Mabberley Plant-bk. 104 C. [Casearia] praecox Griseb. (..WI or Maracaibo boxwood, zapetero, Venezuela, WI)—principal boxwood largely replacing Buxus sempervirens in commerce for rules, veneers, carving, keyboards, etc.
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