Definitions for vegetable wax

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

veg′etable wax`(n.)

  1. a wax, or a substance resembling wax, obtained from various plants, as the wax palm.

Origin of vegetable wax:

1805–15

Princeton's WordNet

  1. vegetable wax(noun)

    a waxy substance obtained from plants (especially from the trunks of certain palms)


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