ceroxylon alpinum

1. 1.

   palm of the Andes yielding a resinous wax which is mixed with tallow to make candles

   Synonymswax palmCeroxylon andicola

   Broaderfeather palm

   Part ofCeroxylon

Questions about ceroxylon alpinum

What does ceroxylon alpinum mean?

ceroxylon alpinum means "palm of the Andes yielding a resinous wax which is mixed with tallow to make candles".

What is another word for ceroxylon alpinum?

Close synonyms include wax palm, Ceroxylon andicola. 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 ceroxylon alpinum a common word?

ceroxylon alpinum 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.