Japanese wax
English
Noun
Japanese wax (uncountable)
- A wax-like substance made in Japan from the berries of certain species of Rhus, especially R. succedanea.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Japanese wax in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)