waxy

/'wæksi/

BNC频率: 23057

现代语料频率: 19583

托福

中文翻译

a. 蜡制的, 像蜡的, 蜡色的, 苍白的, 生气的, 柔软的, 光滑的

[医] 蜡状的, 蜡的

英文解释

a made of or covered with wax

a easily impressed or influenced

s capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking

s having the paleness of wax

常见例句

A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.

waxy substance secreted by the sperm whale and found floating at sea or washed ashore

(pathology) a waxy translucent complex protein resembling starch that results from degeneration of tissue

> Broscience in action: > "Bro, you gotta slam 40-60 grams of waxy maize plus 20 grams of BCAA within 7 seconds of finishing your last set of squat rack curls

a thin paper coated on one side with a dark waxy substance (often containing carbon)