wax flower

noun

Madagascar jasmine.

Origin of wax flower

First recorded in 1835–45

Words nearby wax flower

wawl, wax, wax and wane, wax bean, wax cap, wax flower, wax gourd, wax insect, wax jack, wax light, wax moth

Example sentences from the Web for wax flower

  • 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

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