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wax tree

noun

  1. a Japanese anacardiaceous tree, Rhus succedanea, having white berries that yield wax
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The tree is known to the Chinese as the Pai-la shu, or white wax tree.

The wax tree of Louisiana contains immense quantities of wax.

On the surrounding hills we saw thickets of the Japanese wax tree, Rhus succedaneus.

It is to this, the great home of the wax tree, that the scales are carried from the Chien-chang valley.

After the lapse of a hundred days from the placing of the insects on the wax tree, the deposit is complete.

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