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packwax

packwax is the alternative form of paxwax.

Meaning of paxwax

Noun

paxwax (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural, obsolete) A strong ligament of the back of the neck in quadrupeds, connecting the back of the skull with dorsal spines of the cervical vertebrae; the nuchal ligament.

Questions about packwax

What is packwax the alternative form of?
Packwax is the alternative form of paxwax.

Words near packwax in the dictionary

  1. packthreads
  2. packtong
  3. packtrain
  4. packtrains
  5. packware
  6. packwax
  7. packway
  8. packways
  9. Packwood
  10. Packwoods
  11. packy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: packwax (page history and authors); paxwax (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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