'waxes' definitions:
Definition of 'waxes'
From: GCIDE
- lipid \lip"id\ n. [Gr. li`pos fat.] (Chem., Biochem.) Any of a variety of oily or greasy organic compounds found as major structural components of living cells; they are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents such as alcohol and ether, and include the common fats, cholesterol and other steroids, phospholipids, sphingolipids, waxes, and fatty acids; some of the lipids, together with proteins and carbohydrates, form an essential structural component of living cells, as in the cell walls and membranes. The term lipid refers to its solubility in nonpolar solvents, and has no significance with regard to chemical structure.
- Syn: lipide, lipoid. [WordNet 1.5]
Words containing 'waxes'
- Wax,
- Waxed,
- Waxing,
- Chinese wax,
- Grafting wax,
- Grave wax,
- Japanese wax,
- Mineral wax,
- Modeling wax,
- Myrtle wax,
- Nose of wax,
- Sealing wax,
- Vegetable wax,
- Walling wax,
- Wax cloth,
- Wax end,
- Wax flower,
- Wax insect,
- Wax light,
- Wax moth,
- Wax myrtle,
- Wax painting,
- Wax palm,
- Wax paper,
- Wax plant,
- Wax tree,
- Wax yellow,
- Waxed cloth,
- Waxed end,
- Waxing kernels,
- White wax,
- ader wax,
- bayberry wax,
- candelilla wax,
- carnauba wax,
- earth wax,
- epilating wax,
- fig wax,
- floor wax,
- ghedda wax,
- gondang wax,
- japan wax,
- lac wax,
- montan wax,
- paraffin wax,
- pisang wax,
- scale wax,
- shellac wax,
- ski wax,
- wax and wane,
- wax bean,
- wax begonia,
- wax crayon,
- wax figure,
- wax mallow,
- Wood-wax,
- wax-chandler,
- white wax tree,
- wax-myrtle family