'Wood-wax' definitions:
Definition of 'Wood-wax'
From: GCIDE
- Wood-wash \Wood"-wash`\, Wood-wax \Wood"-wax`\, Wood-waxen \Wood"-wax`en\, n. [AS. wuduweaxe.] (Bot.) Same as Woadwaxen. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'wood-wax'
From: GCIDE
- Woad-waxen \Woad"-wax`en\, n. [Cf. Wood-wax.] (Bot.) A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen. [1913 Webster]