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wax vestas

wax vestas is the plural 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

Questions about wax vestas

What is wax vestas the plural of?
Wax vestas is the plural of wax vesta.

Words near wax vestas in the dictionary

  1. wax someone's tail
  2. wax tablet
  3. wax tablets
  4. wax the dolphin
  5. wax vesta
  6. wax vestas
  7. wax vine
  8. wax wode
  9. wax-candle
  10. wax-candles
  11. wax-colour

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