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wax flower

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noun
  1. Madagascar jasmine.
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Origin of wax flower

First recorded in 1835–45
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  • There was such artificiality in the wax-flower lady that nothing in this speech touched Renouard.

    Within the Tides

    Joseph Conrad

British Dictionary definitions for wax flower

wax flower

noun
  1. Australian any of several rutaceous shrubs of the genus Eriostemon, having waxy pink-white five-petalled flowers
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