wax plant

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   succulent climber of southern Asia with umbels of pink and white star-shaped flowers

   SynonymsHoya carnosa

   Broaderhoya

Questions about wax plant

What does wax plant mean?

wax plant means "succulent climber of southern Asia with umbels of pink and white star-shaped flowers".

What is another word for wax plant?

Close synonyms include Hoya carnosa. 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 plant a common word?

wax plant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.