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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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Examples for "wax-coated"
Examples for "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 waxy in English
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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
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...
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Even in her waxy whiteness and unnatural emaciation, her face was good.
Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness
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This greasy, sometimes waxy substance is known as adipocere, or grave wax.
Break No Bones
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Small boiling potatoes with a waxy flesh are best for this salad.
Cooking for friends
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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
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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