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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds [syn: bittersweet, American bittersweet, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, staff vine, waxwork, shrubby bittersweet, Celastrus scandens]
2: an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax [syn: waxwork, wax figure]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1663 1. an effigy in wax usually of a person 2. plural but singular or plural in construction wax museum

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a an object, esp. a lifelike dummy, modelled in wax. b the making of waxworks. 2 (in pl.) an exhibition of wax dummies.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Waxwork Wax"work`, n. 1. Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings. 2. (Bot.) An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(waxworks) 1. A waxwork is a model of a person, especially a famous person, made out of wax. N-COUNT 2. A waxworks is a place where waxworks are displayed for the public to look at. Waxworks is both the singular and the plural form. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

bust, carving, doll, dolly, dummy, fantoccini, figure, figurehead, figurine, gingerbread man, lay figure, man of straw, manikin, mannequin, marionette, model, monument, portrait bust, puppet, scarecrow, sculpture, snowman, statuary, statue, statuette, wax figure, wood carving