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wax-eyes

wax-eyes is the plural of wax-eye.

Meaning of wax-eye

Noun

wax-eye (plural wax-eyes)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A bird of the genus Zosterops; a silvereye.
    • [T]he world being My Place by the fallen birch log, with the grass, the insects in the grass, the sky, the sheep and cows and rabbits, the wax-eyes and the hawks – everything Outside.1982, Janet Frame, An Angel at my Table, Virago, published 2024, page 11

Questions about wax-eyes

What is wax-eyes the plural of?
Wax-eyes is the plural of wax-eye.

Words near wax-eyes in the dictionary

  1. wax-candles
  2. wax-colour
  3. wax-end
  4. wax-ends
  5. wax-eye
  6. wax-eyes
  7. wax-myrtle
  8. wax-myrtles
  9. wax-paper
  10. wax-papers
  11. wax-pod bean

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