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CANDELILLA WAX

• CANDELILLA WAX (noun)
The noun CANDELILLA WAX has 1 sense:

1. a hard brown wax that occurs as a coating on candelilla shrubs

Familiarity information: CANDELILLA WAX used as a noun is very rare.

• CANDELILLA WAX (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A hard brown wax that occurs as a coating on candelilla shrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("candelilla wax" is a kind of...):

wax (any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water)

Holonyms ("candelilla wax" is a substance of...):

candelilla; Euphorbia antisyphilitica (wax-coated shrub of northern Mexico and southwestern United States)

candelilla; Pedilanthus bracteatus; Pedilanthus pavonis (wax-coated Mexican shrub related to Euphorbia antisyphilitica)

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