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wax-vesta

wax-vesta is the alternative form of wax vesta.

Meaning of wax vesta

Noun

wax vesta (plural wax vestas)

  1. (historical) A type of early safety match having a wax stem and a phosphorus tip.
    • Suddenly I remembered that I had a tin box of wax-vestas in my pocket.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Forms of wax-vesta

pluralwax-vestas

Questions about wax-vesta

What is wax-vesta the alternative form of?
Wax-vesta is the alternative form of wax vesta.

Words near wax-vesta in the dictionary

  1. wax-pod bean
  2. wax-pod beans
  3. wax-resist
  4. wax-up
  5. wax-ups
  6. wax-vesta
  7. wax-vestas
  8. waxability
  9. waxable
  10. Waxahachie
  11. waxathon

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