CANDELILLA WAX

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Meaning:

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

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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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