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Meanings of waxlike in English

Having the paleness of wax.

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Wax-coated.

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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
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The waxy tones were in all the visible parts of her flesh.
Pierrette
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Luckily, the sides are still a bit waxy from the previous day.
The Guardian
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Water ran in rivulets down waxy leaves-droppedfrom the fruit like rain.
Contact Harvest
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The flowers are small, pure white, waxy, and twisted in the petals.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers / Describing the Most...
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Certainly the waxen hue was gone; certainly the girl was wonderfully better.
Geoffrey Strong
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The pallor of the old face had lost all its waxen dignity.
Lady Rose's Daughter
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His face was black, and resembled those waxen masks kept in lararia.
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
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A frightful anger showed upon his face, which turned waxen in tone.
The Chouans
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Those who are sick, lie motionless as waxen images in their cots.
Out To Win: The Story of America in France
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
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As he had observed, the waxlike figures moved, sat upright, and stared.
Winnie Childs, the Shop Girl
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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
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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
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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