copernicia australis

Questions about copernicia australis

What does copernicia australis mean?

copernicia australis means "South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax".

What is another word for copernicia australis?

Close synonyms include caranday, caranda, caranda palm, wax palm, Copernicia alba. 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 copernicia australis a common word?

copernicia australis 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.