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waxwork |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Waxwork \Wax"work`\, n. 1. Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: waxwork n 1: twining shrub of North America having three-valved yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds [syn: {bittersweet}, {American bittersweet}, {climbing bittersweet}, {false bittersweet}, {staff vine}, {Celastrus scandens}] 2: an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax [syn: {wax figure}]
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