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PEDILANTHUS BRACTEATUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pedilanthus bracteatus mean?
• PEDILANTHUS BRACTEATUS (noun)
The noun PEDILANTHUS BRACTEATUS has 1 sense:
1. wax-coated Mexican shrub related to Euphorbia antisyphilitica
Familiarity information: PEDILANTHUS BRACTEATUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PEDILANTHUS BRACTEATUS (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wax-coated Mexican shrub related to Euphorbia antisyphilitica
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
candelilla; Pedilanthus bracteatus; Pedilanthus pavonis
Hypernyms ("Pedilanthus bracteatus" 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 "Pedilanthus bracteatus"):
candelilla wax (a hard brown wax that occurs as a coating on candelilla shrubs)
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