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• However, compared to Masson pine needles, the waxy of camphor leaves showed thinner and more dasyphyllous.2018 August, Jun Zhou, Zhangwei Wang, Xiaoshan Zhang, “Deposition and Fate of Mercury in Litterfall, Litter, and Soil in Coniferous and…. From the entry dasyphyllous
• Laid on the creamcheese, waxy mackerel, frozen sewerlids of tomato and onion.2015, Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, pages 1.38 and 1.47. From the entry creamcheese
• Waxy potatoes, also known as boiling potatoes, have thin skins and a firm texture; they hold their shape when boiled.2016, Sara Moulton, Sara Moulton’s Home Cooking 101: How to Make Everything Taste Better, New York, N.Y.: Oxmoor House, →ISBN, page 99. From the entry potato-y
• With our snotsicles and waxy cheeks, our breaths' plumes and hulking silhouettes, we may look like members of Scott's last expedition.2010, Michael Engelhard, “Biking Cool”, in Michael Engelhard, editor, Cold Flashes: Literary Snapshots of Alaska, University of Alaska…. From the entry snotsicle
• Branches and leaves become covered with the waxy filaments creating a flocculence (wool-like tufts) that indicates a heavy infestation.2003 August, “a psyllid – Boreioglycaspis melaleucae Moore”, in Featured Creatures, University of Florida Department of Entomology &…. From the entry flocculence
• Then it was pale waxy yellow; youthful pineappley nose and some CO2; medium-dry, good fruit, excellent acidity, spicy oaky finish.2002, Michael Broadbent, Michael Broadbent's Vintage Wine. From the entry pineappley
• Her skin had a waxy texture and it was unlined.1995, Caroline Blackwood, The Last of the Duchess, Pantheon Books, →ISBN, pages 48-49. From the entry overexcessive
• Orange Peel is the finest cultivar with good-sized open lantern flowers of great substance with their characteristic thick waxy petals.1983, Gray-Wilson, Christopher & Matthews, Victoria, Gardening with Climbers, Collins, page 78. From the entry orange peel
• The catatonus of the patient is sometimes remarkably demonstrable in the expression of the symptom known as waxy flexibility (cerea flexibilitas).1947, Johannes Maagaard Nielsen, George Newton Thompson, The engrammes of psychiatry. From the entry catatonus
• A chewing gum comprising a mixture of snuff and a masticable waterproof waxy body, solid at ordinary temperatures.1907, Richard Kidder Meade, Harry McCormack, Laurance T. Clark, Chemical Age: Volume 6. From the entry masticable
• However, its nymphs (immatures) are easy to detect from the copious amounts of waxy flocculence (white fluff) that they secrete onto melaleuca leaves and stems.2010, The Areawide Management Evaluation of Melaleuca quinquenervia, “Natural Enemies of Melaleuca”, in TAME Melaleuca, archived from the…. From the entry flocculence

Meaning of waxy

1. adjective Resembling wax in texture or appearance.
2. adjective Low in starch; tending to remain firm when cooked.
3. noun A cobbler (shoe repairer).

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How do you use waxy in a sentence?

Waxy is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The pizzas—gigantic, floppy, with a hyperreal waxy sheen—are mythic.”

What is a short sentence with waxy?

“'I do hope you won't be waxy,' he said;”

What does waxy mean?

Waxy means resembling wax in texture or appearance.