What's the difference between waxen and waxlike?

Waxen


Definition:

  • () of Wax
  • (a.) Made of wax.
  • (a.) Covered with wax; waxed; as, a waxen tablet.
  • (a.) Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This carnival of camera phones, caressing and even groping (the waxen men do have "moulds" where their private parts would be so that their trousers hang properly, but no, nothing too realistic down there) is the celebrity world were we in control.
  • (2) Almost every month, a new celebrity is added to the waxen lineup.
  • (3) The waxen cast was constructed by adding attachments which protrude inside the LV cavity, such as the papillary muscles and trabeculae carneae to the silicone cast.
  • (4) This was done in a waxen phantom of a human thorax with a hollow liver and spleen.
  • (5) 37.96% of the diabetics had thick, strained and waxen skin.

Waxlike


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pronounced pigmentation in the periphery, together with yellow waxlike optical atrophy and contracted arteries, characterized the ophthalmological findings.
  • (2) Instead, pseudorevertants that made waxlike films in the liquid-air interface were obtained.

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