Crossword clues for waxier
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparativewaxy)
WordNet
adj. made of or covered with wax; "waxen candles"; "careful, the floor is waxy" [syn: waxen]
resembling or covered with wax; "as shiny as a waxy pippin"; "the ceraceous surface of the leaves" [syn: waxlike, ceraceous]
having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness" [syn: waxen, waxlike]
See waxy
Usage examples of "waxier".
He was shifted up there replacing Ben Waxier just after the emergency was declared.
Letting the potatoes cool to room temperature for an hour or two between fryings seems to make Idaho potatoes come out crisper in the end, but has little effect on waxier potatoes.
Its smooth envelope had been faintly translucent, but now had grown waxier and begun to wrinkle.
It was a softer material, waxier, and when he looked at it edge-on, it was white, rather than the dark green or blue of glass seen thus.