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waxwork
(encz) | waxwork,vosková figurína n: Zdeněk Brož |
Waxwork
(gcide) | Waxwork \Wax"work`\, n.
1. Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed
or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.
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2. (Bot.) An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens).
It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open
in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the
seeds.
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waxwork
(wn) | waxwork
n 1: twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules
enclosing scarlet seeds [syn: bittersweet, {American
bittersweet}, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet,
staff vine, waxwork, shrubby bittersweet, {Celastrus
scandens}]
2: an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax [syn:
waxwork, wax figure] |
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waxworks
(encz) | waxworks,panoptikum Zdeněk Brož |
Roxbury waxwork
(gcide) | Bittersweet \Bit"ter*sweet`\, n.
1. Anything which is bittersweet.
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2. A kind of apple so called. --Gower.
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3. (Bot.)
(a) A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries
(Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole
plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish
and then bitter. The branches are the officinal
dulcamara.
(b) An American woody climber (Celastrus scandens),
whose yellow capsules open late in autumn, and
disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also
called Roxbury waxwork.
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Waxwork
(gcide) | Waxwork \Wax"work`\, n.
1. Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed
or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.
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2. (Bot.) An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens).
It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open
in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the
seeds.
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Waxworker
(gcide) | Waxworker \Wax"work`er\, n.
1. One who works in wax; one who makes waxwork.
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2. A bee that makes or produces wax.
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Waxworks
(gcide) | Waxworks \Wax"works`\, n. pl.
An exhibition of wax figures, or the place of exhibition; as,
Madame Toussaud's Waxworks.
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