paraffin wax

1. 1.

   from crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings

   Synonymsparaffin

   Broaderwax

Questions about paraffin wax

What does paraffin wax mean?

paraffin wax means "from crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings".

What is another word for paraffin wax?

Close synonyms include paraffin. 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 paraffin wax a common word?

paraffin 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.