yellow box

plural yellow boxes · alternative yellowbox

1. AustraliaAny of various eucalyptus trees, especially Eucalyptus melliodora of southeastern Australia.First known use 19th c.

   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

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   ‘[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. USinformalclimatologyA "tornado watch" notification category.

   See also: severe thunderstorm watch

3. informalInformal form of box junction.