| NOUN | plant | candlewood | any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light |
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| Meaning | Any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light. | |
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| Narrower | boojum tree, cirio, Fouquieria columnaris, Idria columnaris | candlewood of Mexico and southwestern California having tall columnar stems and bearing honey-scented creamy yellow flowers |
| ocotillo, coachwhip, Jacob's staff, vine cactus, Fouquieria splendens | desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers | |
| Broader | shrub, bush | A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
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