vegetable wax

1. 1.

   a waxy substance obtained from plants (especially from the trunks of certain palms)

   Broaderwax

Questions about vegetable wax

What does vegetable wax mean?

vegetable wax means "a waxy substance obtained from plants (especially from the trunks of certain palms)".

Is vegetable wax a common word?

vegetable 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.