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wax plant

wax plant noun: hoya carnosa, native to East Asia.

wax plant: hoya carnosa, native to East Asia
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Noun

wax plant (plural wax plants)

  1. Hoya carnosa, native to East Asia.
  2. Hoya bilobata, native to the Philippines.
  3. The candelilla, a plant of species Euphorbia antisyphilitica, native to Texas and northern Mexico.

Synonyms of wax plant

Forms of wax plant

pluralwax plants
alternative formwaxplant

Origin of wax plant

From wax + plant.

Questions about wax plant

What does wax plant mean?
Wax plant means hoya carnosa, native to East Asia.
What part of speech is wax plant?
Wax plant is a noun.
What is the plural of wax plant?
The plural of wax plant is wax plants.

Words near wax plant in the dictionary

  1. wax paper
  2. wax papers
  3. wax pencil
  4. wax pencils
  5. wax philosophical
  6. wax plant
  7. wax plants
  8. wax play
  9. wax poetic
  10. wax point
  11. wax points

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