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CANDELILLA

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wax-coated shrub of northern Mexico and southwestern United States

Synonyms:

candelilla; Euphorbia antisyphilitica

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

spurge (any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice)

Meronyms (substance of "candelilla"):

candelilla wax (a hard brown wax that occurs as a coating on candelilla shrubs)

Holonyms ("candelilla" is a member of...):

Euphorbia; genus Euphorbia (type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wax-coated Mexican shrub related to Euphorbia antisyphilitica

Synonyms:

candelilla; Pedilanthus bracteatus; Pedilanthus pavonis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

slipper plant; slipper spurge (any of several tropical American shrubby succulent plants resembling cacti but having foot-shaped bracts)

Meronyms (substance of "candelilla"):

candelilla wax (a hard brown wax that occurs as a coating on candelilla shrubs)

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