yellow box

English

Alternative forms

• (tree): yellowbox

Noun

yellow box (plural yellow boxes)

1. (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.’

   • 2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 284:

     Deep in the bush, beneath the pale disc of the moon, a dozen men gathered around a yellow-box fire.

2. (informal, US, meteorology) A "tornado watch" notification category.

   See also: severe thunderstorm watch

3. Informal form of box junction.

Coordinate terms

(colored boxes, especially electronic ones):

• beige box
• black box
• blue box
• brown box
• gray box
• green box
• orange box
• purple box
• red box
• silver box
• white box
• yellow box

 

Related terms

(trees):

• box tree, boxwood