beeswax
pronunciation
How to pronounce beeswax in British English:
UK [ˈbi:zwæks]
How to pronounce beeswax in American English:
US [ˈbizˌwæks]
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- Noun:
- a yellow to brown wax secreted by honeybees to build honeycombs
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- Verb:
- cover with beeswax
Word Origin
- beeswax (n.)
- 1670s, from genitive of bee + wax. As a jocular alteration of business (usually in an injunction to someone to mind his own) attested from 1934 in Lower East Side slang as reproduced in Henry Roth's "Call It Sleep."
Example
- 1. A colony of bees and turned the engine into a hive and it was totally preserved in beeswax .
- 2. Their lipsticks were a paste made with red iron oxide and ochre clays or olive oil with beeswax .
- 3. Dr hamidi and his colleague ruhullah massoudi , also tested candles made from beeswax and soy and found they did not produce the dangerous chemicals .
- 4. Not until the renaissance was the female gender of the queen bee proved , or beeswax shown to be secreted from the undersides of bees .
- 5. 1 Add 1 teaspoon packed beeswax and teaspoon cocoa butter and 4 teaspoon sweet almond oil to heat-proof measuring cup .