| wax | (noun) any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water | - |
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| (verb) go up or advance | Synonyms: climb, mount, rise |
| (verb) increase in phase | Synonyms: full |
| (verb) cover with wax | - |
| waxberry | (noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: bayberry, candleberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry |
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| (noun) deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries | Synonyms: common snowberry, snowberry, Symphoricarpos alba |
| waxed | (adjective) treated with wax | - |
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| waxen | (adjective) made of or covered with wax | Synonyms: waxy |
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| (adjective) having the paleness of wax | Synonyms: waxlike, waxy |
| waxflower | (noun) small waxy white or pinkish-white saprophytic woodland plant having scalelike leaves and a nodding flower; turns black with age | Synonyms: Indian pipe, Monotropa uniflora |
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| (noun) epiphytic clusia of British Guiana | Synonyms: Clusia insignis |
| (noun) twining woody vine of Madagascar having thick dark waxy evergreen leaves and clusters of large fragrant waxy white flowers along the stems; widely cultivated in warm regions | Synonyms: Madagascar jasmine, Stephanotis floribunda |
| waxiness | (noun) the quality of being made of wax or covered with wax | - |
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| waxing | (adjective) (of the moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon increases | - |
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| (noun) the application of wax to a surface | - |
| (noun) a gradual increase in magnitude or extent | - |
| waxlike | (adjective) having the paleness of wax | Synonyms: waxen, waxy |
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| waxmallow | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers | Synonyms: sleeping hibiscus, wax mallow |
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| waxwing | (noun) brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the Northern Hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips | - |
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| waxwork | (noun) an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax | Synonyms: wax figure |
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| (noun) twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds | Synonyms: American bittersweet, bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine |
| waxy | (adjective) easily impressed or influenced | Synonyms: impressible, impressionable |
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| (adjective) made of or covered with wax | Synonyms: waxen |
| (adjective) having the paleness of wax | Synonyms: waxen, waxlike |
| (adjective) capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking | Synonyms: bendable, pliable, pliant |
| waxycap | (noun) any fungus of the family Hygrophoraceae having gills that are more or less waxy in appearance | - |
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