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PEDILANTHUS PAVONIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wax-coated Mexican shrub related to Euphorbia antisyphilitica
Synonyms:
candelilla; Pedilanthus bracteatus; Pedilanthus pavonis
Classified under:
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)