WAXWORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waxwork mean? 

• WAXWORK (noun)
  The noun WAXWORK has 2 senses:

1. twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds

2. an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax

  Familiarity information: WAXWORK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAXWORK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American bittersweet; bittersweet; Celastrus scandens; climbing bittersweet; false bittersweet; shrubby bittersweet; staff vine; waxwork

Hypernyms ("waxwork" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Holonyms ("waxwork" is a member of...):

Celastrus; genus Celastrus (genus of woody vines and erect shrubs (type genus of the Celastraceae) that is native chiefly to Asia and Australia: includes bittersweet)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

wax figure; waxwork

Hypernyms ("waxwork" is a kind of...):

effigy; image; simulacrum (a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture))

 Context examples 

This was a full-blown, very plump damsel, fair as waxwork, with handsome and regular features, languishing blue eyes, and ringleted yellow hair.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)