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Definition of Carnauba
1. Noun. Hard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes.
Substance meronyms: Carnauba Palm, Copernicia Cerifera, Copernicia Prunifera, Wax Palm
Generic synonyms: Wax
2. Noun. Brazilian fan palm having an edible root; source of a useful leaf fiber and a brittle yellowish wax.
Generic synonyms: Fan Palm
Group relationships: Copernicia, Genus Copernicia
Terms within: Carnauba Wax
Definition of Carnauba
1. n. The Brazilian wax palm. See Wax palm.
Definition of Carnauba
1. Noun. A Brazilian palm tree having waxy, fan-shaped leaves and toothed leafstalks. ¹
2. Noun. (context: not countable) The hard wax obtained from the leaves of this plant and used especially in polishes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Carnauba
1. a palm tree [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carnauba
Literary usage of Carnauba
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"Such a mixture consists of water 10 quarts, sodium carbonate 2j/£ Ibs., carnauba
wax 5^ Ibs. carnauba varnishes are obtained, 1st, ..."
2. Sketches of Residence and Travels in Brazil: Embracing Historical and by Daniel Parish Kidder (1845)
"carnauba Palms.—Inhabitants.—In- dians.—Food.—Floods and Drought.—Statistics.
... There prevails in this province a great abundance of the carnauba palm, ..."
3. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1898)
"Only the carnauba wax melts in boiling water ; colophony becomes pasty therein,
while dammar, shellac, elemi, and mastic agglutinate. ..."
4. Brazil. Stray Notes from Bahia: Being Extracts from Letters, &c., During a by James Wetherell, William Hadfield (1860)
"... and, when required, pipes are to be carried into the houses. carnauba.—WAX.—f.TRAW.
One species of palm, the " carnauba," is exceedingly useful. ..."
5. Vegetable Substances: Materials of Manufactures (1833)
"... goring to it any unpleasant smell, or materially impairing the brilliancy of
its flame. A mixture of carnauba—Corypha cerifera. ..."
6. Leather Industries Laboratory Book of Analytical and Experimental Methods by Henry Richardson Procter (1908)
"The detection of carnauba wax is still more difficult. Resin or resin acids may
be detected by the Lieber- mann-Storch reaction with acetic anhydride and ..."
7. Treatise on Applied Analytical Chemistry by Vittorio Villavecchia (1918)
"Detection of carnauba Wax.- — This is often added in small proportion to paraffin
wax to raise its melting point. Indications of its presence are given by ..."
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