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Meanings of waxy leaves in English

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Usage of waxy leaves in English
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Water ran in rivulets down waxy leaves-droppedfrom the fruit like rain.
Contact Harvest
2
Waterfalls without names, waxy leaves, berries in jade pools.
Number9Dream
3
From one to another he went, fingering the waxy leaves, studying the brilliant flower faces.
Her Father's Daughter
4
A solid field of green, waxy leaves and upright purple spikes, jammed tight and moving.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
5
Woolly-leaved plants are drought-resistant, as are those glaucous plants with waxy leaves, which protect them from water loss.
The Guardian
6
There was even a large green plant, with huge waxy leaves, of the kind that looks artificial but isn't.
Neverwhere
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The trail has led them into another banana plantation, and the waxy leaves around them rattle in the wind.
Night of knives
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A creeping plant with very beautiful waxy leaves, said by Captain Murray to be vanilla, grows up many of the trees.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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Everywhere I went, I saw the towering trees with their waxy leaves and heavy-hanging fruits, each the size of softballs or larger.
BBC
10
I crunched my way across the grass, littered with the hard, waxy leaves of the three-hundred-year-old oak trees in my front yard.
The brush-off: a hair-raising mystery
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Eagleburger could make out the waxy leaves of Spanish bayonet, could see clumps of oleander with bundles of flowers blooming in the night.
The flock
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Suddenly dizzy, she turned her face away from the height to press it to the waxy leaves of the vines and their sweet stink.
Blood and Bone
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