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.’
  2. (informal, US, meteorology) A "tornado watch" notification category.
    See also: severe thunderstorm watch

Coordinate terms

(colored boxes, especially electronic ones):

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