PEDILANTHUS PAVONIS

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Meaning:

Wax-coated Mexican shrub related to Euphorbia antisyphilitica

Synonyms:

candelilla; Pedilanthus bracteatus; Pedilanthus pavonis

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Nouns denoting plants

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)

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