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Cerotene :: Cerotene (n.) A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin..

Sycock :: Sycoceryl (n.) A radical, of the aromatic series, regarded as an essential ingredient of certain compounds found in the waxy resin of an Australian species of fig..

Cerosin :: Cerosin (n.) A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminae..

Galactin :: Galactin (n.) A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree (Galactodendron).

Stephanotis :: Stephanotis (n.) A genus of climbing asclepiadaceous shrubs, of Madagascar, Malaya, etc. They have fleshy or coriaceous opposite leaves, and large white waxy flowers in cymes..

Adipocere :: Adipocere (n.) A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration..

Palmin :: Palmin (n.) A white waxy or fatty substance obtained from castor oil.

Myricin :: Myricin (n.) A silky, crystalline, waxy substance, forming the less soluble part of beeswax, and regarded as a palmitate of a higher alcohol of the paraffin series; -- called also myricyl alcohol..

Myristic :: Myristic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the nutmeg (Myristica). Specifically, designating an acid found in nutmeg oil and otoba fat, and extracted as a white crystalline waxy substance..

Waxiness :: Waxiness (n.) Quality or state of being waxy.

Ricinelaidin :: Ricinelaidin (n.) The glycerin salt of ricinelaidic acid, obtained as a white crystalline waxy substance by treating castor oil with nitrous acid..

Paraffine :: Paraffine (n.) A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or

Nicotianine :: Nicotianine (n.) A white waxy substance having a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves and called also tobacco camphor..

Ceraceous :: Ceraceous (a.) Having the texture and color of new wax; like wax; waxy.

Onocerin :: Onocerin (n.) A white crystalline waxy substance extracted from the root of the leguminous plant Ononis spinosa.

Theobromic :: Theobromic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from cacao butter (from the Theobroma Cacao), peanut oil (from Arachis hypogaea), etc., as a white waxy crystalline substance..

Cetin :: Cetin (n.) A white, waxy substance, forming the essential part of spermaceti..

Methal :: Methal (n.) A white waxy substance, found in small quantities in spermaceti as an ethereal salt of several fatty acids, and regarded as an alcohol of the methane series..

Spermaceti :: Spermaceti (n.) A white waxy substance obtained from cavities in the head of the sperm whale, and used making candles, oilments, cosmetics, etc. It consists essentially of ethereal salts of palmitic acid with ethal and other hydrocarbon bases. The substance of spermaceti after the removal of certain impurities is sometimes called cetin..

Paxywaxy :: Paxywaxy (n.) See Paxwax.

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