PEDILANTHUS PAVONIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pedilanthus pavonis mean? 

• PEDILANTHUS PAVONIS (noun)
  The noun PEDILANTHUS PAVONIS has 1 sense:

1. wax-coated Mexican shrub related to Euphorbia antisyphilitica

  Familiarity information: PEDILANTHUS PAVONIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEDILANTHUS PAVONIS (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 pavonis" 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 pavonis"):

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