Like paraffin

Usage examples of waxy.

David remembered reading of adipocere, fatty tissues changed chemically to waxy material, preserving bodies for decades.

This greasy, sometimes waxy substance is known as adipocere, or grave wax.

She took ambergris from her pack and crumbled it, rubbed the waxy green granules into the soles of her feet, her wrists.

To see the clusters of waxy flowers these branches must be raised, when it will be seen that the flower stalks issue from the axils of the leaves all along the branches.

From a wiry old woman with mud-brown skin, he mastered the botanical secrets of the land, learning how to make curare from strychnos vines, malarial prophylaxes from cinchona bark, barbasco insect repellent, and a topical painkiller from waxy red genipa berries.

Albumen, with disintegrated epithelia, hyaline, and large granular casts, as well as waxy casts, are peculiar to, and characteristic of, this disease.

Its trumpet-shaped waxy flowers were like upside-down Easter lilies, opening by moonlight to exude their heavy, sensual aroma.

In his clumsy haste, Andrew cannoned into a mohwa tree bringing down a cascade of heavily scented waxy blossoms.

White Poppy capsules, when dried, furnish papaverine and narcotine, with some mucilage, and a little waxy matter.

Waist-deep she waded among flat discs of pondweed, her hair streaming like wet leaves over the waxy contours of her body.

In the springtime, when the desert nights are still cool, the tips of the saguaro branches are covered with waxy white flowers.

The silkiness of melting chocolate on his tongue reminds him of the music of Angelo Badalamenti, and the music of Badalamenti brings to mind the waxy surface of a scarlet anthurium, and the anthurium sparks an intensely sensual recollection of the cool taste and crispness of cornichons, which for several seconds completely overwhelms the actual taste of the chocolate.

On the kitchen counter was a huge bouquet of waxy red flowers with yellow spadix -- anthuriums, if Kenneth recalled correctly -- and a large wooden model ship.

I opened my bento bako of red lacquer, and found that it contained some cold, waxy potatoes, on which I dined, with the addition of some tea, and then waited wearily for Ito, for whom the guide went in search.

She smiled faintly as she touched the waxy blooms, and then continued about her tasks, still feeling uneasy although she was no longer sure whether that was because of the attempted robbery or Lord Am brose s unwelcome visit.