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candle wax

candle wax noun: any material, such as stearin or tallow, used to make the body of candles.

Noun

candle wax (countable and uncountable, plural candle waxes)

  1. Any material, such as stearin or tallow, used to make the body of candles
    • She is not beaming at all. Her mouth is set like the wardress of Belsen wishing to boil Joyous’s chubby cheeks into candle wax.2008, Denis Beckett, “Explaining prawns”, in Magenta, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press; Johannesburg: Saga Press, →ISBN, page 83

Forms of candle wax

pluralcandle waxes
alternative formcandlewax

Questions about candle wax

What does candle wax mean?
Candle wax means any material, such as stearin or tallow, used to make the body of candles.
What part of speech is candle wax?
Candle wax is a noun.
What is the plural of candle wax?
The plural of candle wax is candle waxes.

Words near candle wax in the dictionary

  1. candle snuffer
  2. candle snuffers
  3. CANDLE syndrome
  4. candle tree
  5. candle trees
  6. candle wax
  7. candle waxes
  8. candle-end
  9. candle-ends
  10. candle-light
  11. candle-shade

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