yellow box
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (tree): yellowbox
Noun
[edit]yellow box (plural yellow boxes)
- (Australia) Any of various eucalyptus trees, especially Eucalyptus melliodora of southeastern Australia. [from 19th c.]
- 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 61:
- ‘[T]he old man would sit his horse out there in the shade of a yellowbox that grew just outside the garden fence.’
- (informal, US, meteorology) A "tornado watch" notification category.
- See also: severe thunderstorm watch
- Informal form of box junction.
Coordinate terms
[edit](colored boxes, especially electronic ones):
Related terms
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