wax plant
or waxplant
a shrubby climbing plant, Hoya carnosa, of the milkweed family, native to Australia, with umbels of waxy pink or white flowers.
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How to use wax plant in a sentence
The wax-plant, though properly a summer blooming plant, sometimes flowers in winter.
A Garden with House Attached | Sarah Warner BrooksOf the cultivated forms, the wax-plant (Hoya), and Physianthus are the commonest.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany | Douglas Houghton CampbellI have morning-glories, double lady's-slippers, and wax-plant.
Harper's Young People, September 7, 1880 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for waxplant
/ (ˈwæksˌplɑːnt) /
a climbing asclepiadaceous shrub, Hoya carnosa, of E Asia and Australia, having fleshy leaves and clusters of small waxy white pink-centred flowers
any of various similar plants of the genus Hoya
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