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A wax secreted by bees from which they make honeycomb; or, the processed form of this wax used in the manufacture of various goods.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Examples
- The candle was made entirely of natural beeswax.
- She polished the furniture with beeswax to give it a shine.
- The beekeeper collected honey and beeswax from the hives.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Business.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, humorous, informal, uncountable, usually
Examples
- mind your own beeswax
- none of your beeswax
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To polish with beeswax.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
a yellow to brown wax secreted by honeybees to build honeycombs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: animal product, wax
Narrower terms: Ghedda wax
cover with beeswax
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Chris beeswaxed the kitchen table
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wax
Across languages
Translations
101 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Dupaningan Agta:
lilen
— wax secreted by bees
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Arabic:
شَمْع الْعَسَل
(šamʕ al-ʕasal)
— wax secreted by bees
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Aramaic:
ܫܲܥܘܼܬ݂ܵܐ
(šaˁūṯā)
— wax secreted by bees
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Armenian:
մեղրամոմ
(meġramom)
— wax secreted by bees
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Assamese:
মৌসিটা
(mouxita)
— wax secreted by bees
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Assamese:
মম
(mom)
— wax secreted by bees
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Azerbaijani:
mum
— wax secreted by bees
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Azerbaijani:
arı mumu
— wax secreted by bees
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Bashkir:
балауыҙ
(balawıź)
— wax secreted by bees
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Belarusian:
пчалі́ны воск
(pčalíny vosk)
— wax secreted by bees
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Bengali:
মোম
(mōm)
— wax secreted by bees
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Bhojpuri:
मोम
(mōm)
— wax secreted by bees
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Bulgarian:
пче́лен во́сък
(pčélen vósǎk)
— wax secreted by bees
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Catalan:
cera d'abella
— wax secreted by bees
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Chinese Mandarin:
蜜蠟 /蜜蜡
(mìlà)
— wax secreted by bees
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Chinese Mandarin:
蜂蠟 /蜂蜡
(fēnglà)
— wax secreted by bees
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Crimean Tatar:
balavuz
— wax secreted by bees
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Czech:
včelí vosk
— wax secreted by bees
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Danish:
bivoks
— wax secreted by bees
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Dutch:
bijenwas
— wax secreted by bees
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Esperanto:
abelvakso
— wax secreted by bees
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Estonian:
mesilasvaha
— wax secreted by bees
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Finnish:
mehiläisvaha
— wax secreted by bees
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French:
cire d'abeille
— wax secreted by bees
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Galician:
cera de abella
— wax secreted by bees
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Galician:
borra de abella
— wax secreted by bees
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Galician:
buio
— wax secreted by bees
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Galician:
morria
— wax secreted by bees
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German:
Bienenwachs
— wax secreted by bees
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Greek:
μελισσόκηρος
(melissókiros)
— wax secreted by bees
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Greek:
μελισσοκέρι
(melissokéri)
— wax secreted by bees
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Ancient Greek:
κηρός
(kērós)
— wax secreted by bees
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Ancient Greek:
κηρίον
(kēríon)
— wax secreted by bees
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Hawaiian:
kūkaenalo
— wax secreted by bees
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Hebrew:
דונג
(dónag)
— wax secreted by bees
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Hindi:
मोम
(mom)
— wax secreted by bees
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Hindi:
मधुमोम
(madhumom)
— wax secreted by bees
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Hungarian:
méhviasz
— wax secreted by bees
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Icelandic:
bývax
— wax secreted by bees
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Indonesian:
lilin lebah
— wax secreted by bees
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Indonesian:
malam
— wax secreted by bees
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Ingrian:
vaha
— wax secreted by bees
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Italian:
cera d'api
— wax secreted by bees
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Japanese:
蜜蝋
(mitsurō)
— wax secreted by bees
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Japanese:
封蝋
(fūrō)
— wax secreted by bees
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Kazakh:
ара балауызы
(ara balauyzy)
— wax secreted by bees
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Khmer:
ក្រមួនឃ្មុំ
(krɑɑmuən khmum)
— wax secreted by bees
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Korean:
밀랍
(millap)
— wax secreted by bees
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Korean:
봉랍
(bongnap)
— wax secreted by bees
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Northern Kurdish:
şima
— wax secreted by bees
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Kyrgyz:
мом
(mom)
— wax secreted by bees
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Latin:
cēra
— wax secreted by bees
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Latvian:
vasks
— wax secreted by bees
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Lun Bawang:
ulih
— wax secreted by bees
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Macedonian:
пчелин восок
(pčelin vosok)
— wax secreted by bees
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Malay:
lilin lebah
— wax secreted by bees
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Malayalam:
മെഴുക്
(meḻukŭ)
— wax secreted by bees
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Māori:
ware
— wax secreted by bees
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Middle English:
wax
— wax secreted by bees
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Khiamniungan Naga:
yàp
— wax secreted by bees
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Classical Nahuatl:
xīcohcuitlatl
— wax secreted by bees
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Navajo:
tsísʼná bijeeh
— wax secreted by bees
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Norwegian Bokmål:
bivoks
— wax secreted by bees
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
bivoks
— wax secreted by bees
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Persian:
موم
(mum)
— wax secreted by bees
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Polish:
wosk pszczeli
— wax secreted by bees
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Portuguese:
cera de abelha
— wax secreted by bees
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Punjabi:
ਮੋਮ
(mom)
— wax secreted by bees
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Romanian:
ceară de albine
— wax secreted by bees
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Russian:
пчели́ный воск
(pčelínyj vosk)
— wax secreted by bees
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Scottish Gaelic:
cèir
— wax secreted by bees
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Scottish Gaelic:
cèir-sheillean
— wax secreted by bees
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Serbo-Croatian:
восковаринa
— wax secreted by bees
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Serbo-Croatian:
пчелињи восак
— wax secreted by bees
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Serbo-Croatian:
voskovarina
— wax secreted by bees
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Serbo-Croatian:
pčelinji vosak
— wax secreted by bees
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Sicilian:
cira
— wax secreted by bees
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Sicilian:
cira dî lapi
— wax secreted by bees
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Slovak:
včelí vosk
— wax secreted by bees
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Slovene:
čebelji vosek
— wax secreted by bees
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Spanish:
cera de abeja
— wax secreted by bees
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Sudovian:
vaskan
— wax secreted by bees
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Swedish:
bivax
— wax secreted by bees
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Tagalog:
pagkit
— wax secreted by bees
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Tajik:
мум
(mum)
— wax secreted by bees
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Tamil:
மெழுகு
(meḻuku)
— wax secreted by bees
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Tamil:
தேன்மெழுகு
(tēṉmeḻuku)
— wax secreted by bees
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Tatar:
балавыз
(balawız)
— wax secreted by bees
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Thai:
ขี้ผึ้ง
(kîi-pʉ̂ng)
— wax secreted by bees
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Tibetan:
སྤྲ་ཚིལ
(spra tshil)
— wax secreted by bees
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Tibetan:
བུང་བའི་སྤྲ་ཚིལ
(bung ba'i spra tshil)
— wax secreted by bees
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Tibetan:
སྦྲང་བུའི་སྤྲ་ཚིལ
(sbrang bu'i spra tshil)
— wax secreted by bees
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Tooro:
ebisasara class 8
— wax secreted by bees
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Turkish:
bal mumu
— wax secreted by bees
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Ottoman Turkish:
بالمومی
(balmumu)
— wax secreted by bees
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Ukrainian:
бджоли́ний ві́ск
(bdžolýnyj vísk)
— wax secreted by bees
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Urdu:
موم
(mom)
— wax secreted by bees
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Venetan:
zèra
— wax secreted by bees
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Vietnamese:
sáp ong
— wax secreted by bees
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Volapük:
bienaväk
— wax secreted by bees
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Welsh:
cŵyr gwenyn
— wax secreted by bees