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carnauba
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun carnauba has 2 senses
- carnauba(n = noun.plant) carnauba wax - hard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes; Array is a kind of wax
- carnauba(n = noun.plant) carnauba palm, copernicia cerifera, copernicia prunifera, wax palm - Brazilian fan palm having an edible root; source of a useful leaf fiber and a brittle yellowish wax; Array is a kind of fan palm
is a member of copernicia, genus copernicia
OXFORD DICTIONARY
carnauba, n.
1 a fan palm, Copernicia cerifera, native to NE Brazil.
2 (in full carnauba wax) the yellowish leaf-wax of this tree used as a polish etc.
1 a fan palm, Copernicia cerifera, native to NE Brazil.
2 (in full carnauba wax) the yellowish leaf-wax of this tree used as a polish etc.
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