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Meanings of waxlike in English

Having the paleness of wax.

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        Wax-coated.

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              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...
              Usage of waxlike in English
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              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
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              It was no longer a waxlike mask, but Henrietta, girlish and pathetically at rest.
              An Unsocial Socialist
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              The ghastly dreams of Orestes perished with the light; phosphorus is yellowish and waxlike by day.
              The Best Short Stories of 1915, and the Yearbook of the American...
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              She fairly trembled with joy as she uncovered the waxlike flowers of dainty pink and white.
              Patchwork: A Story of 'The Plain People'
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              Pushing up through the wet soil, already showed early snowplants, those strange, waxlike towers of crimson.
              The Rules of the Game
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              For about a week a serous fluid oozes from the teat and concretes as a yellow, waxlike mass around its orifice.
              Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
              10
              Far overhead was a square, black shadow in the waxlike crust which they had left; it was the shadow of the cube.
              The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life
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              Waxlike and translucent they grow in abundance in this, the abode of the dead.
              The Tarn of Eternity
              Waxlike through the time