Hypertext Webster Gateway: "waxwork"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Waxwork \Wax"work`\, n.
1. Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed
or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.
2. (Bot.) 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
waxwork
n 1: twining shrub of North America having three-valved yellow
capsules enclosing scarlet seeds [syn: {bittersweet}, {American
bittersweet}, {climbing bittersweet}, {false bittersweet},
{staff vine}, {Celastrus scandens}]
2: an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax [syn: {wax
figure}]
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