"yellow box" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: yellow boxes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} yellow box (plural yellow boxes)
  1. (Australia) Any of various eucalyptus trees, especially Eucalyptus melliodora of southeastern Australia. Tags: Australia Categories (lifeform): Eucalypts Synonyms (tree): yellowbox Related terms: box tree, boxwood
    Sense id: en-yellow_box-en-noun-sFXp~zP7 Disambiguation of Eucalypts: 59 41 Categories (other): Australian English Disambiguation of 'tree': 100 0 Coordinate_terms: beige box, black box, blue box, brown box, gray box, green box, orange box, purple box, red box, silver box, white box
  2. (informal, US, meteorology) A "tornado watch" notification category. Tags: US, informal Categories (topical): Meteorology
    Sense id: en-yellow_box-en-noun-EQI6pwg7 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English links with redundant wikilinks Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 66 Disambiguation of English links with redundant wikilinks: 39 61 Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences

Inflected forms

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