buxo
Portuguese, noun/ˈbu.ʃu/
buxo is spelled B-U-X-O (4 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 78,593rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Buxo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “box (any of various evergreen shrubs or trees)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “arbusto de folhas sempre verdes, enramado e mesto, Buxus sempervirens”.
What does buxo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebox (any of various evergreen shrubs or trees)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. arbusto de folhas sempre verdes, enramado e mesto, Buxus sempervirens 2. madeira deste arbusto, dura, compacta, de cor amarela
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of buxo
- buxos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce buxo?
- Brazil /ˈbu.ʃu/
- Portugal /ˈbu.ʃu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to buxo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is buxo in Portuguese?
buxo appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).