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Noun waxwork has 2 senses
- waxwork(n = noun.plant) american bittersweet, bittersweet, celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine - twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds; Array is a member of celastrus, genus celastrus
- waxwork(n = noun.artifact) wax figure - an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax; Array is a kind of effigy, image, simulacrum
is a kind of vine
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waxwork, n.
- Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
waxwork, n.
1 a an object, esp. a lifelike dummy, modelled in wax. b the making of waxworks.
2 (in pl.) an exhibition of wax dummies.
1 a an object, esp. a lifelike dummy, modelled in wax. b the making of waxworks.
2 (in pl.) an exhibition of wax dummies.
THESAURUS
waxwork
bust, carving, doll, dolly, dummy, fantoccini, figure, figurehead, figurine, gingerbread man, lay figure, man of straw, manikin, mannequin, marionette, model, monument, portrait bust, puppet, scarecrow, sculpture, snowman, statuary, statue, statuette, wax figure, wood carvingROGET THESAURUS
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Representation
N representation, representment, imitation, illustration, delineation, depictment, imagery, portraiture, iconography, design, designing, art, fine arts, painting, sculpture, engraving, photography, cinematography, radiography, autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy, personation, personification, impersonation, drama, picture, photo, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot, X-ray photo, movie film, movie, tracing, scan, TV image, video image, image file, graphics, computer graphics, televideo, closed-circuit TV, copy, drawing, sketch, drought, draft, plot, chart, figure, scheme, image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness, very image, effigy, facsimile, figure, figure head, puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay- figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust, statue, statuette, ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji, diagram, monogram, map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan), ichnography, cartography, atlas, outline, scheme, view, radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph, spectrogram, heliogram, represent, representing, representative, illustrative, represented, imitative, figurative, iconic, like, graphic, cinquecento quattrocento, trecento.VB copy, drawing, sketch, drought, draft, plot, chart, figure, scheme, image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness, very image, effigy, facsimile, figure, figure head, puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay- figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust, statue, statuette, ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji, diagram, monogram, map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan), ichnography, cartography, atlas, outline, scheme, view, radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph, spectrogram, heliogram, V, represent, delineate, depict, depicture, portray, take a likeness, catch a likeness, hit off, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot, figure, shadow forth, shadow out, adumbrate, body forth, describe, trace, copy, mold, dress up, illustrate, symbolize, paint, carve, engrave, personate, personify, impersonate, assume a character, pose as, act, play, mimic, hold the mirror up to nature.
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