EUPHORBIA ANTISYPHILITICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Euphorbia antisyphilitica mean? 

• EUPHORBIA ANTISYPHILITICA (noun)
  The noun EUPHORBIA ANTISYPHILITICA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: EUPHORBIA ANTISYPHILITICA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EUPHORBIA ANTISYPHILITICA (noun)

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Meaning:

Wax-coated shrub of northern Mexico and southwestern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

candelilla; Euphorbia antisyphilitica

Hypernyms ("Euphorbia antisyphilitica" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (substance of "Euphorbia antisyphilitica"):

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

Holonyms ("Euphorbia antisyphilitica" is a member of...):

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