carnauba wax

1. 1.

   hard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes

   Synonymscarnauba

   Broaderwax

Questions about carnauba wax

What does carnauba wax mean?

carnauba wax means "hard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes".

What is another word for carnauba wax?

Close synonyms include carnauba. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carnauba wax a common word?

carnauba wax is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.