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ˈwax-plant
A name given to various plants either yielding a vegetable wax or having a waxy appearance; esp. a. the candleberry myrtle, Myrica cerifera; b. any species of Hoya, esp. H. carnosa; c. the corpse-plant, Monotropa uniflora.
1801J. Barrow Trav. S. Afr. I. 19 In most of the sandy flats are found..two varieties of the Myrica cerifera, or wax plant. 1865Mrs. H. Wood Mildred Arkell xxxv, Mamma made me bring this down at once for your conservatory... It is a wax plant, and a very beautiful one. 1875Melliss St. Helena 311 Hoya carnosa,..Wax plant... Hab. China. 1877Sir C. Warren On Veldt in Seventies (1902) 379 On the window there hung a ‘wax plant,’ which has beautiful waxen-looking flowers. 1879Webster Suppl., Wax-plant, a white fleshy plant (Monotropa uniflora). |