Either of two South American palm trees from which wax is obtained.
（南美）蜡棕榈
a carnauba.
an Andean palm with a stem coated in a mixture of resin and wax (Ceroxylon alpinum, family Palmae).
Example sentencesExamples
The wax palms grow really tall and straight but are really skinny with no branches except at the very top.
The wax palm is Colombia's national tree and itself a threatened species.
Just days before Palm Sunday, the Catholic Church in western Colombia elected to support alternatives to cutting down wax palms for adorning traditional processions.
The situation has put both the wax palm and yellow-eared parrots in peril.
A similar wax is obtained from the trunk of Ceroxylon andicola, the wax palm of the Andes.
But if we don't do something, the wax palm and the yellow-eared parrot will disappear from the planet.
A stand of wax palms is seen near the border of a national park in the province of Huila in southern Colombia, in this May 6, 2004 file photo.
At this point you enter the cloud forest where the wax palms grow.
Peasants fell the wax palms just to strip the highly prized young emerging fronds for sale to worshippers.
It is currently only thought to occur among the wax palms in the cloud forests of the Colombian Andes.
The campaign to conserve Colombia's wax palms and the yellow-eared parrots, Ognorhynchus icterotis, that depend on them is working.
This particular parrot appears to nest only in wax palms and eats the tree's thumb-sized fruit ‘as we would a coconut’ he said.
Valle de Cocora, Colombia, hosts the world's largest remaining colony of wax palms on Earth.
Yesterday a group of us went for a great hike through some stunning cloudforest at a nearby town called Cocora to see the 40m wax palms that are unique to this area.
The Cuban wax palm thrives in full sun locations in tropical settings, like southern Florida.
And the wax palm forests play a vital ecological role in supporting a wide range of animals and plants, and in protecting fragile slopes and watersheds.
Definition of wax palm in US English:
wax palm
nounˈwaks ˌpä(l)m
Either of two South American palm trees from which wax is obtained.
（南美）蜡棕榈
a carnauba
an Andean palm with a stem coated in a mixture of resin and wax (Ceroxylon alpinum, family Palmae)
Example sentencesExamples
The campaign to conserve Colombia's wax palms and the yellow-eared parrots, Ognorhynchus icterotis, that depend on them is working.
The wax palm is Colombia's national tree and itself a threatened species.
But if we don't do something, the wax palm and the yellow-eared parrot will disappear from the planet.
A stand of wax palms is seen near the border of a national park in the province of Huila in southern Colombia, in this May 6, 2004 file photo.
Valle de Cocora, Colombia, hosts the world's largest remaining colony of wax palms on Earth.
This particular parrot appears to nest only in wax palms and eats the tree's thumb-sized fruit ‘as we would a coconut’ he said.
At this point you enter the cloud forest where the wax palms grow.
It is currently only thought to occur among the wax palms in the cloud forests of the Colombian Andes.
The situation has put both the wax palm and yellow-eared parrots in peril.
Peasants fell the wax palms just to strip the highly prized young emerging fronds for sale to worshippers.
And the wax palm forests play a vital ecological role in supporting a wide range of animals and plants, and in protecting fragile slopes and watersheds.
A similar wax is obtained from the trunk of Ceroxylon andicola, the wax palm of the Andes.
Yesterday a group of us went for a great hike through some stunning cloudforest at a nearby town called Cocora to see the 40m wax palms that are unique to this area.
The Cuban wax palm thrives in full sun locations in tropical settings, like southern Florida.
Just days before Palm Sunday, the Catholic Church in western Colombia elected to support alternatives to cutting down wax palms for adorning traditional processions.
The wax palms grow really tall and straight but are really skinny with no branches except at the very top.