wax palm

Questions about wax palm

What does wax palm mean?

wax palm means "South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wax palm?

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

wax palm is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.