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Meanings of ceraceous in English

Waxy.

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Examples for "waxy"
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In the 'picnic table control', you will find a waxy orange substance.
Bad science
2
The waxy tones were in all the visible parts of her flesh.
Pierrette
3
Luckily, the sides are still a bit waxy from the previous day.
The Guardian
4
Water ran in rivulets down waxy leaves-droppedfrom the fruit like rain.
Contact Harvest
5
The flowers are small, pure white, waxy, and twisted in the petals.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers / Describing the Most...
1
There were a dozen of the lovely waxlike blooms amongst them, uninjured.
Despair's Last Journey
2
As he had observed, the waxlike figures moved, sat upright, and stared.
Winnie Childs, the Shop Girl
3
As the latter slowly turned his waxlike features toward him the youth screamed:
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
4
Adipocere is a waxlike substance formed by the hydrolysis of fat during decomposition.
Spider bones: a novel
5
It was no longer a waxlike mask, but Henrietta, girlish and pathetically at rest.
An Unsocial Socialist
1
Thankfully, there were more than a dozen wax-coated matches in one of his belt pouches.
Logos Run
2
Twelve minutes later, I was buckled in, fingers curling around a wax-coated polyethylene cup for warmth.
Bones Never Lie
3
It was filled with wax-coated matches, the kind made for the caravan trade and carried by nomads everywhere.
RUNNER
4
It bears a stylus which records the vibration, on a rotating, wax-coated cylinder, in a faint wavy line.
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 28...