"beeswax" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbiːzwæks/ Audio: en-us-beeswax.ogg [US] Forms: beeswaxes [plural]
Rhymes: -iːzwæks Etymology: From bee + -s- + wax. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|bee|-s-|wax}} bee + -s- + wax Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} beeswax (usually uncountable, plural beeswaxes)
  1. A wax secreted by bees from which they make honeycomb; or, the processed form of this wax used in the manufacture of various goods. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (lifeform): Bees Translations (wax secreted by bees): κηρός (kērós) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), شَمْع الْعَسَل (šamʕ al-ʕasal) [masculine] (Arabic), մեղրամոմ (meġramom) (Armenian), মৌসিটা (mouxita) (Assamese), মম (mom) (Assamese), mum (Azerbaijani), arı mumu (Azerbaijani), балауыҙ (balawıź) (Bashkir), пчалі́ны воск (pčalíny vosk) [masculine] (Belarusian), মোম (mōm) (Bengali), пче́лен во́сък (pčélen vósǎk) [masculine] (Bulgarian), cera d'abella [feminine] (Catalan), 蜜蠟 (Chinese Mandarin), 蜜蜡 (mìlà) (Chinese Mandarin), 蜂蠟 (Chinese Mandarin), 蜂蜡 (fēnglà) (Chinese Mandarin), xīcohcuitlatl (Classical Nahuatl), balavuz (Crimean Tatar), včelí vosk [masculine] (Czech), bivoks [common-gender, neuter] (Danish), lilen (Dupaningan Agta), bijenwas [masculine] (Dutch), abelvakso (Esperanto), mesilasvaha (Estonian), mehiläisvaha (Finnish), cire d’abeille [feminine] (French), cera de abella [feminine] (Galician), borra de abella [feminine] (Galician), buio [masculine] (Galician), morria [feminine] (Galician), Bienenwachs [neuter] (German), μελισσόκηρος (melissókiros) [masculine] (Greek), μελισσοκέρι (melissokéri) [neuter] (Greek), דונג (dónag) [masculine] (Hebrew), मोम (mom) [masculine] (Hindi), मधुमोम (madhumom) [masculine] (Hindi), méhviasz (Hungarian), bývax [neuter] (Icelandic), vaha (Ingrian), cera d'api (Italian), 蜜蝋 (mitsurō) (alt: みつろう) (Japanese), 封蝋 (fūrō) (alt: ふうろう) (Japanese), балауыз (balauyz) (Kazakh), ក្រមួនឃ្មុំ (krɑɑmuən khmum) (Khmer), 밀랍 (millap) (alt: 蜜蠟) (Korean), 봉랍 (bongnap) (alt: 蜂蠟) (Korean), мом (mom) (Kyrgyz), cera [feminine] (Latin), vasks [masculine] (Latvian), пчелин восок (pčelin vosok) [masculine] (Macedonian), lilin lebah (Malay), wax (Middle English), tsísʼná bijeeh (Navajo), şima [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), bivoks [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), bivoks [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), بالمومی (balmumu) (Ottoman Turkish), موم (mum) (Persian), wosk pszczeli [masculine] (Polish), cera de abelha [feminine] (Portuguese), ਮੋਮ (mom) [feminine] (Punjabi), ceară de albine [feminine] (Romanian), пчели́ный воск (pčelínyj vosk) [masculine] (Russian), cèir [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), cèir-sheillean [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), восковаринa [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), пчелињи восак [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), voskovarina [Latin, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), pčelinji vosak [Latin, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), cira (Sicilian), cira dî lapi (Sicilian), včelí vosk [masculine] (Slovak), čebelji vosek [masculine] (Slovene), cera de abeja [feminine] (Spanish), vaskan (Sudovian), bivax [neuter] (Swedish), pagkit (Tagalog), мум (mum) (Tajik), балавыз (balawız) (Tatar), ขี้ผึ้ง (kîi-pʉ̂ng) (Thai), སྤྲ་ཚིལ (spra tshil) (Tibetan), བུང་བའི་སྤྲ་ཚིལ (bung ba'i spra tshil) (Tibetan), སྦྲང་བུའི་སྤྲ་ཚིལ (sbrang bu'i spra tshil) (Tibetan), bal mumu (Turkish), бджоли́ний ві́ск (bdžolýnyj vísk) [masculine] (Ukrainian), موم (mom) [masculine] (Urdu), zèra [feminine] (Venetian), sáp ong (Vietnamese), bienaväk (Volapük), cŵyr gwenyn [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-beeswax-en-noun-A0za69~Z Disambiguation of Bees: 86 10 4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms interfixed with -s- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 33 7 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 71 22 7 Disambiguation of English terms interfixed with -s-: 59 20 21 Disambiguation of 'wax secreted by bees': 96 4
  2. (colloquial, mildly humorous) “Business”, as in such phrases as mind your own beeswax and none of your beeswax. Tags: colloquial, humorous, mildly, uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-beeswax-en-noun-M9LFGCi4
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: E901 Derived forms: mind your own beeswax

Verb

IPA: /ˈbiːzwæks/ Audio: en-us-beeswax.ogg [US] Forms: beeswaxes [present, singular, third-person], beeswaxing [participle, present], beeswaxed [participle, past], beeswaxed [past]
Rhymes: -iːzwæks Etymology: From bee + -s- + wax. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|bee|-s-|wax}} bee + -s- + wax Head templates: {{en-verb}} beeswax (third-person singular simple present beeswaxes, present participle beeswaxing, simple past and past participle beeswaxed)
  1. (transitive) To polish with beeswax. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-beeswax-en-verb-WxjVsvUP

Inflected forms

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        ],
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          "honeycomb"
        ]
      ],
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "šamʕ al-ʕasal",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "شَمْع الْعَسَل"
        },
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "meġramom",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "մեղրամոմ"
        },
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "as",
          "lang": "Assamese",
          "roman": "mouxita",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "মৌসিটা"
        },
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "as",
          "lang": "Assamese",
          "roman": "mom",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "মম"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "mum"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "arı mumu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ba",
          "lang": "Bashkir",
          "roman": "balawıź",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "балауыҙ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "pčalíny vosk",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "пчалі́ны воск"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "bn",
          "lang": "Bengali",
          "roman": "mōm",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "মোম"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "pčélen vósǎk",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "пче́лен во́сък"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cera d'abella"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "蜜蠟"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "mìlà",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "蜜蜡"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "蜂蠟"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "fēnglà",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "蜂蜡"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "nci",
          "lang": "Classical Nahuatl",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "xīcohcuitlatl"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "crh",
          "lang": "Crimean Tatar",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "balavuz"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "včelí vosk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender",
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "bivoks"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "duo",
          "lang": "Dupaningan Agta",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "lilen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "bijenwas"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "abelvakso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "mesilasvaha"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "mehiläisvaha"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cire d’abeille"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cera de abella"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "borra de abella"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "buio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "morria"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Bienenwachs"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "melissókiros",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "μελισσόκηρος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "melissokéri",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "μελισσοκέρι"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "kērós",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "κηρός"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "dónag",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "דונג"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "mom",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "मोम"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "madhumom",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "मधुमोम"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "méhviasz"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "bývax"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "izh",
          "lang": "Ingrian",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "vaha"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "cera d'api"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "alt": "みつろう",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "mitsurō",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "蜜蝋"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "alt": "ふうろう",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "fūrō",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "封蝋"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "balauyz",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "балауыз"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "krɑɑmuən khmum",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "ក្រមួនឃ្មុំ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "alt": "蜜蠟",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "millap",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "밀랍"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "alt": "蜂蠟",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "bongnap",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "봉랍"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "kmr",
          "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "şima"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ky",
          "lang": "Kyrgyz",
          "roman": "mom",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "мом"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cera"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "vasks"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "pčelin vosok",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "пчелин восок"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "lilin lebah"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "wax"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "nv",
          "lang": "Navajo",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "tsísʼná bijeeh"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "bivoks"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "bivoks"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "balmumu",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "بالمومی"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "mum",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "موم"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "wosk pszczeli"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cera de abelha"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "pa",
          "lang": "Punjabi",
          "roman": "mom",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ਮੋਮ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ceară de albine"
        },
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
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          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "pagkit"
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
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          "word": "мум"
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          "word": "балавыз"
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          "word": "ขี้ผึ้ง"
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          "word": "བུང་བའི་སྤྲ་ཚིལ"
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
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          "roman": "sbrang bu'i spra tshil",
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          "word": "སྦྲང་བུའི་སྤྲ་ཚིལ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
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          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
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          "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
          "word": "sáp ong"
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      "code": "hy",
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      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "մեղրամոմ"
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      "code": "as",
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      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "মৌসিটা"
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    {
      "code": "as",
      "lang": "Assamese",
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      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "মম"
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    {
      "code": "az",
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      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "mum"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "arı mumu"
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    {
      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "balawıź",
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      "word": "балауыҙ"
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      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "mōm",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "মোম"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pčélen vósǎk",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "пче́лен во́сък"
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    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "cera d'abella"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "蜜蠟"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "mìlà",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "蜜蜡"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "蜂蠟"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fēnglà",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "蜂蜡"
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      "code": "nci",
      "lang": "Classical Nahuatl",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "xīcohcuitlatl"
    },
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      "code": "crh",
      "lang": "Crimean Tatar",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "balavuz"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "včelí vosk"
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      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
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        "neuter"
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      "word": "bivoks"
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    {
      "code": "duo",
      "lang": "Dupaningan Agta",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "lilen"
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      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "bijenwas"
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    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "abelvakso"
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    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "mesilasvaha"
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      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "cire d’abeille"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cera de abella"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "borra de abella"
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    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "buio"
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      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "morria"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Bienenwachs"
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      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "μελισσόκηρος"
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      "code": "el",
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      "roman": "melissokéri",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "μελισσοκέρι"
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      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "he",
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      "roman": "dónag",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "דונג"
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      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "mom",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "मोम"
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    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "madhumom",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "मधुमोम"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "méhviasz"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "bývax"
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    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "vaha"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "cera d'api"
    },
    {
      "alt": "みつろう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mitsurō",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "蜜蝋"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ふうろう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "fūrō",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "封蝋"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "balauyz",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "балауыз"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "krɑɑmuən khmum",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "ក្រមួនឃ្មុំ"
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    {
      "alt": "蜜蠟",
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      "roman": "millap",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "밀랍"
    },
    {
      "alt": "蜂蠟",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "bongnap",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "봉랍"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "şima"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "mom",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "мом"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cera"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vasks"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "pčelin vosok",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "пчелин восок"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "lilin lebah"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "wax"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "tsísʼná bijeeh"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bivoks"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bivoks"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "balmumu",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "بالمومی"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "mum",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "موم"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "wosk pszczeli"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cera de abelha"
    },
    {
      "code": "pa",
      "lang": "Punjabi",
      "roman": "mom",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ਮੋਮ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ceară de albine"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pčelínyj vosk",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "пчели́ный воск"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cèir"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cèir-sheillean"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "восковаринa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "пчелињи восак"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "voskovarina"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pčelinji vosak"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "cira"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "cira dî lapi"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "včelí vosk"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "čebelji vosek"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cera de abeja"
    },
    {
      "code": "xsv",
      "lang": "Sudovian",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "vaskan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "bivax"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "pagkit"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "mum",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "мум"
    },
    {
      "code": "tt",
      "lang": "Tatar",
      "roman": "balawız",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "балавыз"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "kîi-pʉ̂ng",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "ขี้ผึ้ง"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "spra tshil",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "སྤྲ་ཚིལ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "bung ba'i spra tshil",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "བུང་བའི་སྤྲ་ཚིལ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "sbrang bu'i spra tshil",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "སྦྲང་བུའི་སྤྲ་ཚིལ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "bal mumu"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "bdžolýnyj vísk",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "бджоли́ний ві́ск"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "mom",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "موم"
    },
    {
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetian",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zèra"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "sáp ong"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "word": "bienaväk"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "wax secreted by bees",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cŵyr gwenyn"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "beeswax"
  ],
  "word": "beeswax"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
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    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
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      "form": "beeswaxes",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "beeswaxing",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beeswaxed",
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        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "beeswaxed",
      "tags": [
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        "To polish with beeswax."
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        "(transitive) To polish with beeswax."
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      "ipa": "/ˈbiːzwæks/"
    },
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      "rhymes": "-iːzwæks"
    },
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      "audio": "en-us-beeswax.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e4/En-us-beeswax.ogg/En-us-beeswax.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/En-us-beeswax.ogg",
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}

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