Winslow Homer

I wouldn't go across the street to see a Bouguereau. His pictures look false; he does not get the truth of what he wishes to represent. His light is not outdoor light; his works are waxy and artificial. They are extremely near being frauds.

American Artist

Anastasia Soare

If you're lacking hair in your brows, applying powder over a waxy pencil will make the color stick.

Romanian Businesswoman

Used to describe plants or objects having a natural sheen, similar to leaves after rain.

Natural Descriptions

Doesn't mean something is actually made of wax, just that it appears smooth or glossy.

Not Literally Wax

Indicates a subtle, often attractive quality, not an overly bright shine.

Subtle Sheen

Suggests poor health or distress, often used by medical professionals.

Health Indicator

Conveys an abnormal paleness suggesting illness, not typical paleness from lack of sun.

Not Just Pale

Implies a similarity to the pale, smooth texture of a new candle.

Candle Comparison

Often used to describe the texture or feel of food, cosmetics, or materials.

Texture Context

Used when wax is a component, making the substance dull or slightly sticky.

Presence of Wax

Useful in creating a vivid picture in the reader's mind in writing and literature.

Sensory Details

 It has no fresh water that it's able to drink, but it drinks water out of fog. It's got bumps on the back of its wing covers. And those bumps act like a magnet for water. They have water-loving tips, and waxy sides. And the fog comes in and it builds up on the tips.

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 Melon cacti grow on limestone soils in seasonally dry tropical forests, where they're constantly exposed to the beating sun. They rely on another adaptation common to a thick skin, which is coated in a waxy substance called a cuticle that limits water loss.

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 And those bumps are hydrophilic; they attract water. Between them there's a waxy finish which repels water. And the effect of this is that as the droplets start to form on the bumps, they stay in tight, spherical beads, which means they're much more mobile

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 Microbes can reach plants in a number of ways, like getting splashed onto it during watering or fertilization. Under the right conditions, the microbes grow into large enough colonies to attack the waxy outer layer of fruit or leaves.

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 and some of the feathers for flying but often when they're doing their chests and stuff like that it's their swimming feathers to get make sure they've got that lovely little sort of waterproof waxy layering in the correct I'm trying

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 the predatory weapon of a sperm whale is up here this is where the bulk of the head sits and it is immense it could make up as much as a third of the animal's body length almost all of this is filled with sperma Ceti that waxy

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 Plants' defenses start at their surface. The bark covering tree trunks is full of lignin, a rigid web of compounds that's tough to chew and highly impermeable to pathogens. Leaves are protected by a waxy cuticle

The amazing ways plants...

 and formed hard brown clumps. The corpse wasn't putrid, but it didn't exactly smell good, either. So, priests poured tree resin over the body to seal it, massaged it with a waxy mixture that included cedar oil,

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 another way to reduce the heat if the waxy combs get too hot they can actually melt and fall off the cliff a disaster for any bee colony

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 pandas inhabit a perfumed world they're the only bears with a scent gland the gland applies a waxy fragrance that

Waxy