wax-like

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White phosphorus is a wax-like substance which ignites on contact with oxygen, creating bright plumes of smoke.

From BBC • May 6, 2023

Back then, companies used wax-like finishes to keep water from soaking through their clothing.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2022

Here we have mistletoe, and Jeanne watches her mother with a half-smile as she buys a great ball of dainty gray-green leaves and wax-like berries.

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2012

Then white, red, and purple anemones, ranunculi, and wax-like Stars of Bethlehem.

From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

Cer′osine, a wax-like substance produced on the surface of certain species of sugar-cane.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various