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Wax palm   /wæks pɑm/   Listen
Wax palm

noun
1.
South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax.  Synonyms: caranda, caranda palm, caranday, Copernicia alba, Copernicia australis.
2.
Brazilian fan palm having an edible root; source of a useful leaf fiber and a brittle yellowish wax.  Synonyms: carnauba, carnauba palm, Copernicia cerifera, Copernicia prunifera.
3.
Palm of the Andes yielding a resinous wax which is mixed with tallow to make candles.  Synonyms: Ceroxylon alpinum, Ceroxylon andicola.





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"Wax palm" Quotes from Famous Books



... Royal Botanic Gardens, at Kew, wax is shown as scraped from the trunk of the wax palm (Ceroxylon andicola), and candles made from it, as also some made of acorns and closely resembling common tallow. Concrete milk and butter made from the Shea butter tree, and others growing ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds


Words linked to "Wax palm" :   carnauba palm, fan palm, feather palm, genus Ceroxylon, genus Copernicia, carnauba wax, Copernicia, caranda, Ceroxylon


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