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Meanings of waxlike in английском

Having the paleness of wax.

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        Wax-coated.

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              Examples for "waxy"
              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...
              1
              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 английском
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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
              3
              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