wax plant

His most recommended plant was tree ivy—its juices sprayed up the nostrils.
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Place the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt on parchment or wax paper.
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Alastair Sim had jowls like melting candle wax, a snarl like a cornered cat and eyes cold with contempt.
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There was Petr Miller, a forgeman from the Prague ČKD plant.
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His first feature film, Jellyfish Eyes, debuted last year and was set in a town near a threatening nuclear power plant.
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As there are still many varieties of the plant grown in America, so there doubtless was when cultivated by the Indians.
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Her eldest daughter married in America, and was well known as a modeller in wax in New York.
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The plant as a whole remains green until late in the autumn.
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The Smooth Naked Horsetail is a common plant, specially by the sides of streams and pools.
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The relation existing between the balmy plant and the commerce of the world is of the strongest kind.
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British Dictionary definitions for wax plant

waxplant

/ (ˈwæksˌplɑːnt) /

noun

a climbing asclepiadaceous shrub, Hoya carnosa, of E Asia and Australia, having fleshy leaves and clusters of small waxy white pink-centred flowers

any of various similar plants of the genus Hoya

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