Waxwork

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Waxwork \Wax"work`\, n.
     1. Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed
        or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "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 carving