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yellow box en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (Australia) Any of various eucalyptus trees, especially Eucalyptus melliodora of southeastern Australia.
    • Deep in the bush, beneath the pale disc of the moon, a dozen men gathered around a yellow-box fire. 2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 284:
    • ‘[T]he old man would sit his horse out there in the shade of a yellowbox that grew just outside the garden fence.’ 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 61:
  2. (US, informal) A "tornado watch" notification category.
    • See also: severe thunderstorm watch
  3. (form-of, informal) Informal form of box junction.
    form of box junction

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yellow boxes Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

boxwood · box tree

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