Meanings of waxy substance in English

This greasy, sometimes waxy substance is known as adipocere, or grave wax.

The waxy substance builds in the ear canals of many mammals, including ourselves.

There is a waxy substance in the center which we are still analyzing.

They warmed a waxy substance in their hands and spread it onto the hair.

Dargonesti women in scarlet robes tended these braziers, feeding them small pellets of some waxy substance.

Mineral or vegetable oil, and a white, waxy substance called P-E-G 1500 Mono Stearate keep the texture smooth.

By various recondite processes, he converted the urine first into a noxious paste and then into a translucent waxy substance.

The skin was a sallow yellow, and there was a horrible waxy substance on what was left of the cheeks.

Beeswax is a peculiar waxy substance secreted only by bees, and consisting of 80.2 per cent.

For a long time people believed this was honey dew, but instead, it is a waxy substance which is not sweet.

Talking at the festival in Bradford, he described how bees protect themselves against disease by making a smelly, waxy substance called propolis.

The trees had changed in this long, hot season, departing from their urrearth habits to coat their leaves in a waxy substance that smelled medicinal.

"It's like snorkeling, but without the snorkel." The skin of Blunt's face had been blackened to a tarry, waxy substance.