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单词 wax plant
释义

wax plant

or waxplant


noun

a shrubby climbing plant, Hoya carnosa, of the milkweed family, native to Australia, with umbels of waxy pink or white flowers.

Origin of wax plant

First recorded in 1795–1805

Words nearby wax plant

wax moth, wax museum, wax myrtle, wax palm, wax paper, wax plant, wax tablet, wax tree, waxwing, waxwork, waxworks
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Example sentences from the Web for wax plant

  • The wax-plant, though properly a summer blooming plant, sometimes flowers in winter.

    A Garden with House Attached|Sarah Warner Brooks
  • Of the cultivated forms, the wax-plant (Hoya), and Physianthus are the commonest.

    Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany|Douglas Houghton Campbell
  • I have morning-glories, double lady's-slippers, and wax-plant.

    Harper's Young People, September 7, 1880|Various

British Dictionary definitions for wax plant

waxplant
/ (ˈwæksˌplɑːnt) /

noun

a climbing asclepiadaceous shrub, Hoya carnosa, of E Asia and Australia, having fleshy leaves and clusters of small waxy white pink-centred flowers
any of various similar plants of the genus Hoya
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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