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Meanings of wax-coated in English

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
        Usage of wax-coated in English
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        Thankfully, there were more than a dozen wax-coated matches in one of his belt pouches.
        Logos Run
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        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...