wax moth

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noun

bee moth.

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Origin of wax moth

First recorded in 1760–70

Words nearby wax moth

waxing moon, wax insect, wax jack, waxleaf privet, wax light, wax moth, wax museum, wax myrtle, wax palm, wax paper, wax plant

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How to use wax moth in a sentence

Place the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt on parchment or wax paper.
Make ‘The Chew’s’ Carla Hall’s Sticky Toffee Pudding|Carla Hall|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Alastair Sim had jowls like melting candle wax, a snarl like a cornered cat and eyes cold with contempt.
How Dickens and Scrooge Saved Christmas|Clive Irving|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Inside the wax floored examining room, I sat up on the powder blue table with my shirt off.
I Shot Bin Laden|Elliot Ackerman|November 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I promised never again to wax lyrical about the fries in gravy.
I Saw Nuclear Armageddon Sitting on My Desk|Clive Irving|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Full disclosure: I briefly worked for Torres at his current magazine, Wax Poetics.
It Was All a Dream: Drama, Bullshit, and the Rebirth of The Source Magazine|Alex Suskind|October 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Her eldest daughter married in America, and was well known as a modeller in wax in New York.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
At length only four or five flames remained, feebly wavering in their pools of melted wax.
The Boarded-Up House|Augusta Huiell Seaman
Two many-branched candelabra, holding wax lights, brilliantly illuminate the game.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Tories will wax eloquent on "the pink miasma of revolutionary Radicalism."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
Frulein Timm belongs to the single sisterhood, but is one of the fresh and placid kind, and as neat as wax.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay

British Dictionary definitions for wax moth

wax moth

noun

a brown pyralid moth, Galleria mellonella, the larvae of which feed on the combs of beehivesAlso called: honeycomb moth, bee moth

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