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malleable, moldable, plastic, shapable (or shapeable)
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At the moment, Athens doesn’t have a buyer for plastic bags, nor for milk and juice cartons with waxy-filmy material and plastic spouts. — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, "Column: I took the contents of my blue bin to the recycling center. Here’s what I learned," 17 Aug. 2019 Christopher Vincent, a physiologist at the University of Florida who studies citrus greening, said the waxy coating on the leaves of orange trees has been an impediment to delivering oxytetracycline into the plant’s phloem, or vascular system. — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, "Spraying Antibiotics to Fight Citrus Scourge Doesn’t Help, Study Finds," 16 Aug. 2019 Instead of a cell-wall structure identified as Gram-negative or positive, M. tuberculosis and its relatives have a unique thick, waxy cell wall, rich in mycolic acid. — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, "How a new antibiotic destroys extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis," 16 Aug. 2019 Low-starch Also called waxy varieties, low-starch potatoes are good for boiling, sautéing, roasting and smashing. — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Wisconsin farmers — and diners — dig potatoes of all types and colors," 15 Aug. 2019 There are also no oil companies, and plastic is basically oil whipped into a hard, waxy meringue. — Rowan Jacobsen, Outside Online, "An Ocean Plastics Field Trip for Corporate Executives," 8 Aug. 2019 DowDuPont’s agricultural arm, now rebranded with a consumer-friendly name—deleted a gene in order to improve what’s known as waxy corn, which industry uses to make shiny paper and to thicken food. — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, "To feed its 1.4 billion, China bets big on genome editing of crops," 29 July 2019 Scale are insects that build up on the needles of the tree, giving them a waxy white appearance and and blocking them from doing their job. — Catalina Righter, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, "Westminster releases 100,000 insects ... on purpose," 18 July 2019 Actually a purple-blue with a naturally waxy coating that makes the skin appear a bit bluer, contrasting nicely with the pumpkin-orange flesh. — Kenneth Setzer, sun-sentinel.com, "What is the mysterious blue mango?," 25 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'waxy.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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