CANDELILLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does candelilla mean? 

• CANDELILLA (noun)
  The noun CANDELILLA has 2 senses:

1. wax-coated Mexican shrub related to Euphorbia antisyphilitica

2. wax-coated shrub of northern Mexico and southwestern United States

  Familiarity information: CANDELILLA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANDELILLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wax-coated Mexican shrub related to Euphorbia antisyphilitica

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

candelilla; Pedilanthus bracteatus; Pedilanthus pavonis

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wax-coated shrub of northern Mexico and southwestern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

candelilla; Euphorbia antisyphilitica

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)