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Meanings of waxy in English

Catalan
cerós

Having the paleness of wax.

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        cerós
        Portuguese
        impressionável

        Easily impressed or influenced.

            impressionável

            Capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking.

                  Wax-coated.

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                        Usage of waxy in English
                        1
                        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...
                        6
                        Even in her waxy whiteness and unnatural emaciation, her face was good.
                        Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness
                        7
                        This greasy, sometimes waxy substance is known as adipocere, or grave wax.
                        Break No Bones
                        8
                        Small boiling potatoes with a waxy flesh are best for this salad.
                        Cooking for friends
                        9
                        Haani's cheek was waxy pale; her striking, lime-green hair had gone limp.
                        Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
                        10
                        If paper-based or waxy, they can be placed into the recycling bin.
                        The Irish Times
                        11
                        There were waxy candle stubs and scuffed-out chalk-markings all over the floor.
                        Hex and the city
                        12
                        I snapped these waxy, cuplike toadstools in a forest near Lough Erne.
                        The Irish Times
                        13
                        Taro retains its shape when simmered, and it becomes waxy on cooling.
                        On food and cooking: the science and lore of the kitchen
                        14
                        And as for this waxy stuff spread over the talc, it's unique.
                        The Lost Continent
                        15
                        All those little waxy hexagons-doesn'tfit with Mr. Wren's scheme, does it?
                        Quicksilver
                        16
                        She stared at those little hands, pallid and waxy against the snow.
                        Swan Song
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                        Translations for waxy
                        Catalan
                        cerósceri
                        Portuguese
                        impressionável
                        Waxy through the time
                        Waxy across language varieties
                        United States of America
                        Common
                        United Kingdom
                        Common